Finance Quotes

“A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return.”
― Daniel Willey

“My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,
my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,
my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.”
― Csaba Gabor

“Man is smart - If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Your money habits and investment strategy is not all about what you do, but much about who you are. Become the person it takes to do, succeed, and innovate.”
― Amah Lambert, Cracking the Stock Market Code: How to Make Money in Shares

“Those who say don't know, those who know don't say”
― Michael Lewis

“Money is a tool. Used properly it makes something beautiful- used wrong, it makes a mess!”
― Bradley Vinson

“A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money”
― Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

“Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can't know the amount you will need!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The stock market is almost magical because it always leads the economy. It goes down long before the economy drops and then heads higher long before the economy rebounds. It always has.”
― Kenneth L. Fisher, The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives : Illustrated Lessons from Financial Cycles and Trends

“Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.”
― Ricky Maye

“I love supporting the blue-chip companies’ revival. Shows wise when you are on the top and you are still not ignorant & arrogant to realise your weaknesses.”
― Csaba Gabor

“Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. Doing it to feed your kids was another.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.”
― Amah Lambert, Cracking the Stock Market Code: How to Make Money in Shares

“If you think rightly, every problem is financial problem or eventually becomes one.”
― Amit Kalantri

“If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come by – even men in those circumstances have sex with other men and abuse children. Look at the Catholic Church! Man is an imperfect animal and he is corruptible, okay? And in finance, the liquid nature of the market makes corruption very easy. On Wall Street, this liquidity is so in your face -' he suddenly grits his teeth - 'that if you have even the slightest predisposition to the dark side, you become corrupted. In addition to which, those attracted to Wall Street have a predisposition to greed.”
― Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mouth

“Life is like one big blueprint, if you don't make plans then your future will not be built”
― Rea Hayman

“The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck”
― Richard Swift, S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism

“The picture of bankers slavering after bonuses soon after they had been rescued by government bailouts was not only outrageous but also pitiable - pitiable because they were clamoring for their primary measure of self-worth and status to be restored”
― Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

“The ‘do nothing everything will be all right’ default plan is determined by the IRS and government.”
― Sean Novinson

“Success is relative. We shouldn't compare the financial success between a person born into riches and the one born into abject poverty.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Things change, not only in one’s life but also in the economy
and on the political scene, and it pays to be aware. Is the foundation
of your financial house secure, with an income that is
guaranteed? Have you built solid walls, investing appropriately,
and keeping inflation at bay? Are you living under a reliable
roof, with assets positioned to grow? Is your house insulated
and sturdy, safe from any economic storm?”
― Christopher K. Abts

“We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast experiment, a hope that personal finance and investments would do it all for us. We now know that for all too many people, it did not.”
― Helaine Olen, Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

“One peek inside his top drawer had been enough for Sophie. Swimming goggles, nail clippers, a Ferragamo tie wound into a tight coil, and packets of Gulden's Spicy Brown Mustard. None of that compared to Ira Blumenstein's gold tooth, Kenneth Yang's Darth Vader lollipop, or Rich Angstrom's Magic 8 Ball.”
― Laura Hemphill, Buying In

“NEVER accept "conventional wisdom" when it comes to finance. If others keep failing, why do you want to follow them?”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

“The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys

“The personal checks and balances that most of us bring to bear when we are employed in other activities - we ask ourselves if we are producing a socially useful product - operate less well in finance because, with few exceptions, making money is the Raison d'être (reason for existence) for the financier”
― Raghuram G. Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

“The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“After all it is not what you make, it is what you keep or pass on.”
― Sean Novinson