It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. – Henry Ford
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. – Benjamin Franklin
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. – Jim Rohn
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. – Epictetus
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. – Suze Orman
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. – Honore de Balzac
Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. – John Locke
As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. – Bo Bennett
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth – both financial affluence and emotional security. – Suze Orman
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. – Andrew Carnegie
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. – John D. Rockefeller
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. – Adam Smith
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. – Alan Greenspan
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. – Alan Greenspan
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. – William Feather
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body. – Mason Cooley
