Finance

Mastering the skills of Finance is what makes the difference between an ordinary manager and an extraordinary one.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter XXXV
Mark Twain

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
Eruption
Mark Twain

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant.
Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt, 1869
Mark Twain

Since a hundred million dollars in New York and twenty-two fish-hooks on the border of the Arctic Circle represent the same financial supremacy, a man in straitened circumstances is a fool to stay in New York when he can buy ten cents' worth of fish-hooks and emigrate.
The Esquimau Maiden's Romance
Mark Twain

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain

The only thing better than a jar of honey is two jars of honey
Winnie the Pooh

Ideas are cheap, production is hard.
Ellen Guon Beeman

In the future, financial security will come primarily from your ability to divert company resources to your new start-up business.
Tthe Dilbert Future
Scott Adams

If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

How much money is enough? Just one dollar more.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
John Paul Getty,American Industrialist (1892-1976)

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
Thomas A. Edison

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford

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

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

A penny saved is a penny earned.##
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Certainty? In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money.
Benjamin Franklin

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John D. Rockefeller

Money makes money, and the money that money makes, makes more money.
Benjamin Franklin

All last year we tried to teach him (Fernando Valenzuela) English, and the only word he learned was million.
Tommy Lasorda

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
Dale Carnegie

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Alexandre Dumas

Income is a fixed sum of money that is hard to live within, but harder to live without.
W.G.P.

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God. to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.
John D. Rockefeller

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
Benjamin Franklin

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

Nothing but Money,Is sweeter than Honey.
Benjamin Franklin

Hope of gain lessens pain.
Benjamin Franklin

He that sells upon Credit, expects to lose 5 per Cent. by bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency.
Benjamin Franklin

Business? It`s quite simple - it`s other people`s money.
Alexander Dumas

Rule number 1: Never lose money. Rule number 2: Never forget rule no. 1.
##Warren Buffett

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn`t have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
Neil Simon

Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable
Edgar Bronfman

Finance is the art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.
Ambrose Bierce

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don`t know about economics.
Luther Hodges

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it.
Oscar Wilde

If Enterprise is afoot, wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, wealth decays whatever Thrift may be doing.
John Maynard Keynes, British economist

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Fannie Hurst

Money is a good servant, but a poor master.
Dominique Bouhours

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn

Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have.
Charles Steinmetz

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it.
Bob Hope

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
Henry David Thoreau

One coin in the money box makes more noise than when the money box is full.
Arabian Proverb

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Mary Quant

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
Dinah Shore

Whatever you have, spend less.
Samuel Johnson

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard

The only good rule is that the budget should never be balances- except for an instant when surplus to curb inflation is being altered to a deficit to fight deflation.
Warren Smith