“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”
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“We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.”
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
“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.”
“I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.”
“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.”
“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”
“The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.”
“I made my money by selling too soon.”
“Poverty is unnecessary.”
“It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.”
“I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.”
“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.”
“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 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.”
“Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.”
“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.”
“Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.”
“Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.”
“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 economy is a very sensitive organism.”
“Money is the best rule of commerce.”
“Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.”
“To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.”