Financial Quotes
"Most investors say "Don’t take risks." The rich investor takes risks." - Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad's Guide To Investing "The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson." - Robert Kiyosaki "I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I did not finish school. I am not particularly talented. Yet, I am far richer than most people simply because I did not stop." - Robert Kiyosaki "The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid." - Og Mandino 1923-1996, American Motivational Author & Speaker "If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich." - Robert Kiyosaki
"If you must work for money, find a way to work and be happy. That is financial intelligence." - Robert Kiyosaki "Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing." - Robert Kiyosaki "In most cases, when people make more money, they get deeper in debt. This is why money alone does not make you rich." - Robert Kiyosaki "The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally." - Robert Kiyosaki "Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous." - Robert Kiyosaki "People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them." - Robert Kiyosaki "I'd rather be rich and unhappy then poor and unhappy." - unknown "Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff."
- Will Rogers 1879-1935 "Money may not buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with." - unknown "Money isn't everything, but it's right up there with oxygen." - unknown "Real wealth can only increase." - Fuller "If you want to make money, go where the money is." - Kennedy "If you want to know what a man is really like, make notice how he acts when he loses money." - Proverb "Too many of us are spending money we haven't earned to buy things we don't need to impress people we don't like." - unknown "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - unknown "It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary be rich." - Alan Alda
"God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience." - John D. Rockefeller 1905, 1839-1937, the richest man of all time, worth $200 billion (in 2001 USD) "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway." - Warren Buffet - Eric S. Raymond "Investing is simple, but not easy." - Warren Buffet interview on CNBC with Maria "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." - P. J. O'Rourke "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
- Billy Graham "Lack of money is the root of all evil." - George Bernard Shaw "God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed & used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience." - John D. Rockefeller 1905, 1839-1937, the richest man of all time, worth $200 billion (in 2001 USD) "Money's only important when you don't have any." - Sting "The aim in life is not to die rich. It is to spend as much money as you can afford." - Harry Triguboff Chief executive of Meriton Apartments, Net Worth: $1.3 billion, Age: 71 "Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing." - Warren Buffet "Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they're doing."
- Warren Buffet "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." - Warren Buffet "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy, and to be greedy only when others are fearful." - Warren Buffet "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians." - Warren Buffet "Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1." - Warren Buffet "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." - Warren Buffet "Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway." - Warren Buffet "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffet "Our favourite holding period is forever."
- Warren Buffet "If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it." - unknown "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." - Robert Orben "If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honore de Balzac "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan "Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult." - Samuel Johnson "Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be." - Rita Rudner "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
- Aristotle "You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life." - Wayne Newton "If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone -- employers and employees -- from the issues that really matter." - Alfie Kohn "A fool and his money are soon parted." - unknown "The love of money is the root of all evil." - Apostle Paul "Time is money." - unknown "If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it." - C. Montgomery Burns The Simpsons "What good is money if you can't inspire terror in your fellow man?"
- C. Montgomery Burns The Simpsons "A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and his health." - Lonnie "Common" Lynn "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means." - Sir Henry Taylor "Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes little sense for those who know what they're doing." - Warren Buffet "It's just paper - all I own is a pickup truck and a little Wal-Mart stock." - Sam Walton 1918-1992, Was second richest man in world "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed." - unknown "The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application." - Miguel de Cervantes "Nothing's free." - unknown