"Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him."
Benjamin Franklin
220 Top-Notch Quotes about Financial Management
"Investing is simple, but not easy."
Warren Edward Buffett
(born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, industrialist, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world. Often called the "legendary investor Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people, he was ranked as the world's second wealthiest person in 2009 and is currently the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2010.
"There are 300,000 accountants in Britain, which means that, as with rats, you’re never less than a few feet from one."
Jolyon Jenkins
(-) British journalist and broadcaster.
"I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
"Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor."
Edgar Russell Fiedler
(April 21, 1929 – March 15, 2003) as an American economist who served as Vice President of The
Conference Board and as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1971 - 1975) during the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
"The technical term for it is 'negative feedback loop'. The rest of us just call it a panic."
(-) International Heral Tribune, article about worldwide fall stockmarket, 9-10-2008
"If you want to be a millionaire start acting like one"
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"Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economist."
Kelvin R. Throop
(-) is a fictional character and collective
pseudonym created by R. A. J. Philips in a story which appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact magazine in July 1964.
"It's not whether you're right or wrong, that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much money you lose when you're wrong."
George Soros
(born August 12, 1930, as Schwartz György) is a Hungarian-American currency speculator, stock investor, businessman, philanthropist, and liberal political activist. He became known as "the Man Who Broke the Bank of England" after he made a reported $1 billion during the 1992 Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.
"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
Robert W. Sarnoff
(-) a pioneer in radio and television who had organized NBC in 1926. In 1956 he became president of NBC and in 1965, president
of RCA. Under his leadership TV became racially integrated when he supported Nat King Cole's variety show and Bill Cosby's role in I Spy. The first presidential debate was televised during Sarnoff's tenure.
"Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt."
Benjamin Franklin
(January 17, 1706 [January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted
polymath, Franklin was a leading author anhis discoveries and theories regarding electricity.d printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and
diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
