“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.”
Money is a tool, but most of us have a more complicated relationship with it than that. These quotes cover saving, spending, investing, debt, and the surprisingly emotional decisions we make about something that is supposed to be rational.
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.”
“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.”
“These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.”
“I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.”
“All money is a matter of belief.”
“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.”
“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.”
“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.”
“Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
“You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.”
“I made my money by selling too soon.”
“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”