One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

I made my money by selling too soon.

My adversary is the world of finance.

Financial support is one thing, but I always think what becomes really sacrificial is your time.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

A person's credit report is one of the most important tools consumers can use to maintain their financial security and credit rating, but for so long many did not know how to obtain one, or what to do with the information it provided.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

All money is a matter of belief.

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.

Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. It's important for a woman to be able to control her finances.

We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.