“I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.”
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“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.”
“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
“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.”
“As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.”
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”
“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.”
“Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.”
“Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”
“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.”
“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.”
“All money is a matter of belief.”
“A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.”
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
“Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.”
“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
“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.”