Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. – Alfred Marshall
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. – Alfred Marshall
The economy is a very sensitive organism. – Hjalmar Schacht
Money is the best rule of commerce. – William Petty
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. – Merton Miller
The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value. – Irving Fisher
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
The job of the Central Bank is to worry. – Alice Rivlin
Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. – George Reisman
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. – Martin Cruz Smith
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. – Alexander John Ellis
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price. – Hillary Clinton
I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. – Donald Trump
Finance, like time, devours its own children. – Honore de Balzac
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it. – Ben Stein
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. – Mario Puzo
We all know that Americans love their statistics – in sport, obviously. And in finance too. – Evan Davis
I worked with a group of people who argued day and night – professors, officials, the Minister of Finance – but there were decisions that I had to make. – Shimon Peres
My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs – the adversary is the world of finance. – Francois Hollande
My adversary is the world of finance. – Francois Hollande
