Finance And Economics Quotes
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The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future. (Quote by - Norman O. Brown)
I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary. (Quote by - Kim Basinger)
You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. (Quote by - Harold Geneen Ceo)
Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. (Quote by - Kenneth H. Blanchard)
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero. (Quote by - Alfred P. Sloan)
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there. (Quote by - Ken Blanchard)
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment. (Quote by - Harvey S. Firestone)
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. (Quote by - William Henry Channing)
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. (Quote by - Laura Ashley)
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves. (Quote by - Herbert Hoover)
We are now in the third stage of the industrial revolution. The first involved machines which extended human muscle; the second used machines to extend the human nervous system (radio, television, telephones); the third is now utilizing machines which extend the human mind-computers. About half of all service workers (43 percent of the labor force by 2000) will be involved in collecting, analyzing, synthesizing, structuring, storing, or retrieving information... By 1995, 80 percent of all management will be "knowledge workers.". (Quote by - Owen Davies)
The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. (Quote by - John Leonard)
The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe? (Quote by - Maurice Mascaranhas)
High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong. (Quote by - Willard C. Butcher)
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. (Quote by - Igor Stravinski)
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. (Quote by - J. Brotherton)
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. (Quote by - Benjamin Jowett)
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. (Quote by - Humphrey Bogart)
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. (Quote by - John G. Pollard)
Business is more exciting than any game. (Quote by - Lord Beaverbrook)
Managing directors are not paid to be busy, they are paid to think. (Quote by - Kenneth Cork)
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues. (Quote by - Les Brown)
A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him. My advice: Don't worry about yourself. Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. (Quote by - H.s.m. Burns)
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. (Quote by - Sir John Egan)
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. (Quote by - George Reisman)
The tougher the job, the greater the reward. (Quote by - George Allen)
Most important for us is a good spiritual relationship between employees and management. (Quote by - Tatsuhiko Andoh)
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. (Quote by - Hobart Brown)
Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. (Quote by - W. Secker)
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job. (Quote by - Paul H. Dunn)
It is solely bigness in business which makes it possible to supply the masses with all those products the present-day American common man does not want to do without. Luxury goods for the few can be produced in small shops. Luxury goods for the many require big business. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Everything starts with the customer. (Quote by - Jr. Gerstner)
Greed is all right, by the way I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself. (Quote by - Ivan F. Boesky)
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. (Quote by - Robert Benchley)
Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. (Quote by - Mary Parker Follet)
Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. (Quote by - Mike Gill)
What is high finance? It's knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It's no more than that. (Quote by - John Bentley)
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. (Quote by - Tiberius Caesar)
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. (Quote by - Alfred A. Knopf)
Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. (Quote by - Marshall Field)
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. (Quote by - Tim Gould)
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years. (Quote by - Michael O'Donnell)
Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off. (Quote by - Mary Ann Allison)
Debt is the worst poverty. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. (Quote by - Charles V)
We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices. (Quote by - De Montesquieu)
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. (Quote by - Richard Branson)
The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other. (Quote by - Diogenes Laertius)
It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. (Quote by - Peggy Joyce)
We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise… you have just stolen our philosophy. (Quote by - Jayvantsinnji Gohel)
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. (Quote by - Walter Gilbey)
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. (Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [Proverbs 28:20]. (Quote by - Bible)
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude. (Quote by - Ruth Benedict)
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market. (Quote by - Don Hays)
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. (Quote by - J. B. Colbert)
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)
Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. (Quote by - Ovid)
You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people. (Quote by - Admiral Grace Hooper)
We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion". (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. (Quote by - Seneca)
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves. (Quote by - James Buchan)
Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche. (Quote by - Victoria Billings)
It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. (Quote by - Chuck Hillis)
It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that's the way the world is. (Quote by - John C. Burton)
Managers have traditionally developed the skills in finance, planning, marketing and production techniques. Too often the relationships with their people have been assigned a secondary role. This is too important a subject not to receive first line attention. (Quote by - William Hewlitt)
The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue. (Quote by - Patrick Donovan)
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. (Quote by - Imelda Marcos)
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. (Quote by - Mary Archer)
The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business. (Quote by - Derby Brown)
Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. (Quote by - George D. Prentice)
If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone. (Quote by - Charles Beacham)
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. (Quote by - Sir Edward Coke)
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do. (Quote by - Charles A. Jaffe)
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. (Quote by - Alan Bond)
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The boss must first distinguish between action information and status information. He must discipline himself not to act on problems his managers can solve, and never to act on problems when he is explicitly reviewing status. I once knew a boss who invariably picked up the phone to give orders before the end of the first paragraph in a status report. That response is guaranteed to squelch full disclosure. (Quote by - Frederick P. Brooks)
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty. (Quote by - Minna Antrim)
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995". (Quote by - Peter Lynch)
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. (Quote by - Ted Turner)
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it. (Quote by - Roger Starr)
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. (Quote by - Randall Jacobs)
It is your people who make the ultimate difference. You put the investment into training the people and then, when you get invited to the party with the big boys, that is a unique selling point. (Quote by - Phil Dixon)
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. (Quote by - J. Ogden Armour)
Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be. (Quote by - Gerald Barzan)
It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
Our job is not to set things right but to see them right. (Quote by - Eric Butterworth)
Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. (Quote by - Fernanda Bartolme)
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? (Quote by - John Barrymore)
It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. (Quote by - Edgar R. Fiedler)
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. (Quote by - George Crane)
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas. (Quote by - George Gilder)
A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich. (Quote by - John Jacob Astor)
Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen. (Quote by - Rita Davenport)
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. (Quote by - Lee Bristol)
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. (Quote by - W. J. Cameron)
I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying. (Quote by - Walford Brodie)
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. (Quote by - Harry Browne)
Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. (Quote by - Appius Claudius)
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. (Quote by - Amelia E. Barr)
Economics is first and foremost about the thoughts leading up to choice. (Quote by - Gerald P. O'driscoll)
Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'. (Quote by - Russell Long)
The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
Money is the sinews of love, as of war. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like. (Quote by - Soichiro Honda)
If you marry for money, you will surely earn it. (Quote by - EzraBowen)
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. (Quote by - Sholom Aleichem)
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. (Quote by - James Howell)
Few great men could pass personal. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. (Quote by - William Cobbett)
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. (Quote by - Nicholas Dewolf)
The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?. (Quote by - Erwin Frand)
Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back. (Quote by - L.l. Bean)
The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management. (Quote by - Frank C. Carlucci)
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. (Quote by - Daniel Defoe)
A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want. (Quote by - William Binger)
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). (Quote by - Edgar R. Fiedler)
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit. (Quote by - Samuel Gompers)
A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster. (Quote by - Edward Esber)
Each man is the smith of his own fortune. (Quote by - Appius Claudius Caecus)
The greatest productive force is human selfishness. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Buying is a profound pleasure. (Quote by - Simone De Beauvoir)
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. (Quote by - Henry J. Kaiser)
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him. (Quote by - Priscilla Elfrey)
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly. (Quote by - Robert Wibbelsman)
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity. (Quote by - Charles F. Bunning)
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something. (Quote by - Harold Coffin)
I made my money by selling too soon. (Quote by - Bernard Baruch)
Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. (Quote by - James Dale Davidson)
Budgets are for cutting, that's why you set them. (Quote by - Dr. Laurence Buckman)
As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. (Quote by - Paul Hawken)
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. (Quote by - Willem De Kooning)
Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. (Quote by - Brian S. Wesbury)
Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant. (Quote by - P.t. Barnum)
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents. (Quote by - Peg Bracken)
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker. (Quote by - Jeffrey P. Davidson)
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Quote by - Hodding Carter)
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. (Quote by - Alan Ayckbourn)
If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong. (Quote by - Graham Day)
There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. (Quote by - Colonel Sanders)
For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. (Quote by - Albert Greenfield)
Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. (Quote by - Mackenzie King)
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. (Quote by - Neil Simon)
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. (Quote by - Jerry Gellis)
The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death... (Quote by - Julian Simon)
If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. (Quote by - Denis Healey)
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. (Quote by - Lord Rutherford)
You can't run a business without taking risks. (Quote by - Millard Drexler)
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. (Quote by - Kenneth Chang)
I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser. (Quote by - Charles Schwab)
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. (Quote by - Ludwig Erhard)
We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability. (Quote by - Brian Corby)
Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can. (Quote by - Gary Comer)
Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. (Quote by - Pete Holiday)
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. (Quote by - Robert Galvin)
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. (Quote by - Andrew Grove)
Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust. (Quote by - Joe Bamford)
If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy. (Quote by - Kenichi Ohmae)
A bad forgery's the ultimate insult. (Quote by - Jonathan Gash)
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. (Quote by - P. D. Armour)
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth. (Quote by - George Reisman)
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. (Quote by - Geoffrey Beene)
If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is. (Quote by - Karl Albrecht)
Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become more scarce. Rather, if history is any guide, natural resources will progressively become less costly, hence less scarce, and will constitute a smaller proportion of our expenses in future years. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a chartered accountant any longer, but involved with property. (Quote by - Godfrey Bradman)
Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer assumptions. (Quote by - Nicola Foulston)
It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas. (Quote by - John Harvey-jones)
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. (Quote by - Harold Hook)
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance. (Quote by - Nathan Collins)
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. (Quote by - Ernest Haskins)
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of the economists. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. (Quote by - Michael Leboeuf)
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. (Quote by - Robert W. Sarnoff)
Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. (Quote by - Howard Davies)
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it. (Quote by - M. Anthony Burns)
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. in his farewell address. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow... (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. (Quote by - Rupert Murdoch)
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. (Quote by - Michael E. Gerber)
If you have to forecast, forecast often. (Quote by - Edgar R. Fiedler)
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. (Quote by - Henry George)
You cannot have the success without the failures. (Quote by - H. G. Hasler)
There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. (Quote by - Joshua Reynolds)
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework. (Quote by - William J. O'neil)
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. (Quote by - Thomas Tusser)
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying. (Quote by - B. F. Harris)
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. (Quote by - Bruce Henderson)
The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems. (Quote by - Steve Cuthbert)
You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board. (Quote by - Ruben Cardenas)
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. (Quote by - Michael Mcshane)
We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. (Quote by - H. V. Adolt)
Avarice is the vice of declining years. (Quote by - George Bancroft)
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)
Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30!.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers. (Quote by - Chris Brasher)
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. (Quote by - The Peter Principle)
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. (Quote by - Orlando A. Battista)
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. (Quote by - Jim Cathcart)
Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. (Quote by - William Randolph Hearst)
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. (Quote by - R. H. Grant)
If we devote our time disparaging the products of our business rivals, we hurt business generally, reduce confidence, and increase discontent. (Quote by - Edward N. Hurley)
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. (Quote by - Democritus)
In a trader-dominated society, the scribe is usually kept out of the management of affairs, but it given a more or less free hand in the cultural field. By frustrating the scribe's craving for commanding action, the trader draws upon himself the scribe's wrath and scorn. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall. (Quote by - Bill Earle)
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house. (Quote by - Nonnee Coan)
Money is something you got to make in case you don't die. (Quote by - Max Asnas)
The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money -- then make money with money -- then make lots of money with lots of money. (Quote by - Paul Erdman)
Every day is a gift- even if it sucks. (Quote by - Sherry Hochman)
If you don't care, your customer never will. (Quote by - Marlene Blaszczyk)
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded- here and there, now and then- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.". (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together! (Quote by - Lydia Vorsteveld)
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before. (Quote by - Julian Simon)
The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle. (Quote by - Charles Handy)
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for poor men to know how rich men work. (Quote by - Edward Atkinson)
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. (Quote by - Edgar R. Fiedler)
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows. (Quote by - Laurence Lee)
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. (Quote by - Thomas Robert Dewar)
