Best business & financial Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.”

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“We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“It looks like the financial giants of the world have bungled as much as the diplomats and politicians. This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.”

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Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a good chance to get even with 'em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are.”

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Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”

“I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

“Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”

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Book:Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work

Source: Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Put the 9 Steps to Work

“Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.”

“In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.”

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Author:Suze Orman

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”

“In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.”

“I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.”

“I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.”

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Author:Andrew Mellon

“None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. Unfortunately, Bertrand Russell's observation about life in general applies with unusual force in the financial world: "Most men would rather die than think. Many do."”

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Author:Warren Buffett

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