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Following you will find some of the best finance quotes that are available anywhere. You will find quotes and sayings from William Petty, Adam Smith, Alice Rivlin, and more.

These finance quotes are born to help us understand money. Without knowledge of how to handle and grow one's own assets will cause a great amount of detriment, heartburn, and heartaches.

That old saying, a fool, and his money is soon departed still rings true.

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.
-Thomas Carper

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
-William Feather

Money is the best rule of commerce.
-William Petty

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
-William Temple

All money is a matter of belief.
-Adam Smith

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.
-Adam Smith

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
-Albert Camus

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
-Alexander John Ellis

The price of everything 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.
-Alfred Marshall

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
-Alfred Marshall

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
-Alice Rivlin

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.
-Jacques Delors

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

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.
-Jeffrey Sachs

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.
-Jeffrey Sachs

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
-Jim Rohn

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
-John Kenneth Galbraith

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.
-John Locke

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
-Barbara Feldon

I made my money by selling too soon.
-Bernard Baruch

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
-Bo Bennett

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.
-Charles Baudelaire

It's not the having, it's the getting.
-Charles Spurgeon

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
-John Maynard Keynes

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
-John Maynard Keynes

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
-Joseph Wood Krutch

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
-Jules Renard

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
-Lee Iacocca

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
-Martin Cruz Smith

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.
-Martin Feldstein

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
-Merton Miller

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
-Merton Miller

Finance quotes are common sense and sometimes finance quotes are downright funny.

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