Archive for category: Money

If you’re smart, you don’t need debt. If you’re dumb, it’s poisonous.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), to Salomon Inc’s clients (September 13, 1991)

It’s never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.

attributed to Judith Jamison – American dancer and choreographer (b. 1943), Quotations book 2010

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application..

attributed to Miguel de Cervantes Y Saavedra – Spanish writer (1547-1616)

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert C. Hoover – American politician, 1929-33 31st president (1874-1964), Quotations book 2005

The secret of making money is to avoid risks.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), quoted in “The Midas Touch” (2009)

Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.

Henry A. “Hank” Rosso – American fundraiser (1917-1999), Quotations book 2004

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ’s return, both of which are imminent.

Randy C. Alcorn – director of the Eternal Perspective Ministries and author (b. 1954),Quotations book 2008

We make our money the old fashioned way: we earn it.

Business-Slogan – used by the Wall Street financial Service Smith Barney & Co.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost his authority.

attributed to John Calvin – born Jean Cauvin, French reformator and founder of the Calvinism (1509-1564)

As for property, it is a duty to make money, but only by honourable means; it is a duty also to save it and increase it by care and thrift.

Res autem familiaris quaeri debet iis rebus, a quibus abest turpitudo, conservari autem diligentia et parsimonia, eisdem etiam rebus augeri.

Marcus Tullius Cicero – Roman politician (106-43 B.C.), from “De officiis” (41 B.C.)

A man is incapable of comprehending any argument that interferes with his Revenue.

Wisdom

I just wait until there is money lying over in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up.

James B. “Jim” Rogers – American star investor, business columnist and author (b. 1942)

The eight Levels of Tzedakah:

1.Highest Level: Supporting a man who has fallen into poverty by giving him a present or a loan, entering into partnership with him, or finding him work so that his hand will be fortified so that he will not have to ask others.

2. Giving to the poor without knowing to whom he gave and without the poor person knowing from whom he received.

3. Giving when the giver knows to whom he is giving, but the poor person does not know from whom he received.

4. Giving when the poor person knows from whom he took, but the donor does not know to whom he gave.

5. Giving in his hands before he asks.

6. Giving him after he asks.

7. Giving him less than what is appropriate, but with a pleasant countenance.

8. Giving him with sadness.

Moses Maimonides – Jewish philosopher, law scholar and physician, most influential Jewish scholar (c. 1135-1204), from the Mischne Tora, Hilchot Mat’not Ani’im,, Chapter 10, 7-14 [Tzedakah: jewish command of charity], Quotations book 2015

I never would have been able to tithe the first million Dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1.50 per week.

attributed to John D. Rockefeller – American oil magnate and one of the richest men of the world in his time (1839-1937), Quotations book 2008

Find bargains and maintain discipline; if you can not find bargains stay in cash.

Francis Chou — Canadian fund manager, Fund Manager of the Decade 2004 (b. 1956)

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

Aristotle – Greek philosopher (384-322 B.C.), in “Nicomachean ethics” (350 B.C.), Quotations book 2011

To the question: “Today you are a billionaire. What do you afford rather than before?”
Nothing. You know I am a guy who wears boots, I have some more suits in my cupboard, but I still drive an old Volvo, and I don’t have a yacht or a private jet. And I got the same wife for 36 years.

Kenneth L. Fisher – American investor (b. 1950), Quotatiins book 2008

The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.

Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1924)

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

following the thoughts of John Maynard Keynes – British economist and investor (1883-1946)

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

attributed to Sir Francis Bacon – English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), Quotations book 2018

[The perfect amount to leave children is] enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from the article “Should you leave it all to the children?” (“Fortune Magazine”, September 29, 1986)

Money, to some extent, sometimes lets you be in more interesting environments. But it can’t change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)

No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions. He had money as well.

Dame Margaret Thatcher – British politician, 1979-90 Prime Minister (1925-2013), from a tv interview with Brian Walden for “London Weekend Television” (“Weekend World”, January 6th, 1980)

Come to see money not as a passport to luxury but as a dangerous encumbrance, and you will not find it ridiculous to give to whoever needs it.

John Boykin – American author (b. 1952)

Money has an attraction for some people, but nobody can wear two pairs of shoes at one time.

Charles Feeney – Irish-American businessman, co-founded the DFS Duty Free Shops chain and General Atlantic Partners (b. 1931), Quotations book 2010

Money is like muck – not good except it be spread.

Sir Francis Bacon – English philosopher, politician and writer (1561-1626), from the essay “Of Seditions and Troubles” (1625), Quotations book 2015

If anyone does not refrain from the love of money, he will be defiled by idolatry and so be judged as if he were one of the heathen.

Polycarp of Smyrna -early Christian theologian, Bishop of Smyrna, one of the Apostolic Fathers(ca.69/70 – ca. 155/156), in his letter to the Philippians

There are a thousand possibilities to “waste” money but only two ways to earn it: Either we work for it – or the money works for us.

attributed to Bernard M. Baruch – American financier, adviser to several American presidents (1870-1965)

The income tax has made more liars out of more Americans than golf has.

William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers – American humorist (1879-1935)