~ Finance Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

Ron Lewis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

Thomas Carper

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate secretly and unobserved an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

John Maynard Keynes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Today if you look at financial systems around the globe more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Muhammad Yunus

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst and then we enter depression? Well some things are not different.

Jeffrey Sachs

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Gold and silver like other commodities have an intrinsic value which is not arbitrary but is dependent on their scarcity the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

David Ricardo

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If a commodity were in no way useful - in other words if it could in no way contribute to our gratification - it would be destitute of exchangeable value however scarce it might be or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

David Ricardo

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Friedrich List

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We've taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world and that it would enhance our own prosperity and our own stability and security as well.

Jeffrey Sachs

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Milton Friedman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare no matter what happens to the world that's not equity it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

Jacques Delors