This time it is different. Here are some good quotes on money, finance and investing:
“We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.” – Buzzie Bavasi
“What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history.” – Warren Buffett
“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.” – Mark Twain
“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” – Donald J. Trump
“Credit is a system whereby a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.” – Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
“Nobody comes here anymore, it’s too crowded.” – Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra
“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.” – Robert Half
“Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.” – George Herbert
“I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.” ― Ernest Hemingway
“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
“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.” – Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
“You get old faster when you think about retirement.” – Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
“Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.” ― Robert Sarnoff
“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.” – Bernard M. Baruch
“You can flip a coin to change its face, but it remains the same coin.” – DaShanne Stokes
“Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.” ― Peter Lynch
“The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behaviour that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.” – Seth Klarman
“Chase your passion, not your pension.” – Denis Waitley
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.” ― Warren Buffett
“A man always has two reasons for what he does – a good one, and the real one.” ― J.P. Morgan
“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.” ― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” – Charles Dickens
“The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them” ― Frank Eberhart
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” – John Maynard Keynes
“If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem.” – J. Paul Getty
“Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.” ― Steven J. Lee, The Money Plan: Creating Personal Wealth for a Secure Future
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Never spend your money before you have it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.” – Dave Ramsey
“The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.” – Warren Buffett
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.” – Paul Samuelson
“Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self.” – Nathan W. Morris
“Derivatives are weapons of mass destruction that morph, mutate, and multiply until some event makes their toxicity clear”. – Warren Buffett
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” – Phillip Fisher
“Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The four most dangerous words in investing are: this time it’s different.” – Sir John Templeton