If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.

Man is smart – If money would have grown on trees, we would have used green leaves as money.

You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.

The blessings of the Lord is our greatest wealth.

The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.

You don’t need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

Success is not just having all your heart desires, you may be financially capable, but you still reside in the apartment of failures if you don’t give out some dough to those roaming the streets.

Don’t live like a CEO when you’restill a sandwich artist.

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that’s not necessary!‏

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

It’s a very fluid situation. We are working on it both in the finance department, going through paperwork, in the police department, and at the investigation site. Accountants are now going through everything.

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well...

You are only as rich as your will power.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!

My only allegiance is to my country. The success of our country is built on hard work, sacrifice, innovation, integrity, and confidence. How can you be confident if you can’t get a job? How can...

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth–stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

I take my investment advice from my dentist, because he’s just as likely to lose me money as a financial advisor.

If you don’t laugh reading this book I’ll eat my pocket protector. Wait, did I just admit I had a pocket protector?

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don’t have.

The sale has allowed us to finance a massive renovation of the property.

I might have been too hasty at the Finance Committee meeting. It would be good to pay for trustees and their spouses and for the award winners. However, I would not like to see us...

The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.

Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts

You actions are your only true belongings.

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can’t know the amount you will need!

The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d’être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas...

Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.

Money is a public good; as such, it lends itself to private exploitation.

Women, if I understood them half as well as I understand fractions, I’d have said a third. But I don’t have time for a third, or even my other half, because I spend all my...

We are fully aware that the movement of finance is now globally subject to many inspections. I don’t think the world can allow the entry of this type of money.

It’s not only how much money you make. It’s what you do with it that determines your financial condition.

We would hope to finance the subsequent phases off the revenues generated by the hotel.

A man always has two reasons for what he does–a good one, and the real one.

Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.

The greatest investment you can do in your life is in gaining time.

human input”. Sooner or later the entire system will collapse revealing the fallacy of an economy based on finance.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.

In order to create something new, to invent a new product or idea, you need to anticipate where things are headed. That requires a mixture of certain habits of mind. You need to foster imagination,...

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

We need to pay as much attention to the MEANS, as to the END! This is the biggest principle of SUCCESS..The END is so enticing, that we lose sight of the details altogether..Success lies in...

This book is an essay in what is derogatorily called “literary economics,” as opposed to mathematical economics, econometrics, or (embracing them both) the “new economic history.” A man does what he can, and in the...