“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.”
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.
“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
“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.”
“Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.”
“Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.”
“At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.”
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
“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.”
“As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.”
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
“I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.”
“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.”
“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.”