There’s more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.
The economy is a very sensitive organism.
We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.
Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face – it’s for him to retire with a smile on his face.
Automating some of your finances can be incredibly convenient and is a great way to save time, but automating everything makes it too easy to go on autopilot and forget to pay attention to your personal finances.
Poverty is unnecessary.
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
We all know that Americans love their statistics – in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
Watch your finances like a hawk.
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.
You don’t want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can’t enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I’m shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
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.
