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The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.

The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success.

Three reasons not to have a [spending] plan: 1. You're rich enough to buy anything you want and still have plenty of money left over. 2. I forget the other two.

Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough.

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.