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It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Author: Mary Archer
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Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
Author: Earl Wilson
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What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.
Author: John Bentley
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One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.
Author: Sylvia Porter
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It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.
Author: John C. Burton
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When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
Author: Mae West
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The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
Author: Jonathan Glancey
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We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
Author: Robert W. Sarnoff
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A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
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One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Author: Will Rogers
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Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.
Author: Will Rogers
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The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Author: Finley Peter Dunne
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The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
Author: Will Rogers
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Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.
Author: Ed Howe
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There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
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