“The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face – it’s for him to retire with a smile on his face.”– Mark Cuban
“The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that’s not equity, it’s just creating a society where you can’t ask anything of people.”– Jacques Delors
“Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That’s not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That’s barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.”– Thomas Carper
“To beat the market you’ll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.”– Merton Miller
“It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.”– Ron Lewis
“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
“We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world’s greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.”– Jeffrey Sachs
“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
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”– Joseph Wood Krutch
“Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world – out of six billion people, more than three billion – do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.”– Muhammad Yunus
“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
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”– John Maynard Keynes
“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
“Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.”– Greer Garson
“Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.”– John D. Rockefeller