| Author |
Quotes |
| Arthur Wing Pinero | A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination. |
| Earl Wilson | Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas. |
| Ed Howe | Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail. |
| Finley Peter Dunne | High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. |
| John Bentley | 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. |
| John C Burton | It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is. |
| Jonathan Glancey | The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. |
| Louis D Brandeis | There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. |
| Mae West | When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin. |
| Mary Archer | It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. |
| Robert W Sarnoff | Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. |
| Sylvia Porter | One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already. |
| Will Rogers | One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide. |
| Will Rogers | Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury, the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out. |
| Will Rogers | A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. |
| Woodrow Wilson | The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital. |
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