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Money Quotes - Page 34

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

"The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.26, Modern Library

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

"The $4.7 trillion pyramid: Why Social Security won't be enough to save Wall Street". Harper's Magazine, April 2005.

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

Karl Marx, Regula Qureshi (2002). “Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics”, p.148, Psychology Press

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

Quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers, an American Dynasty (1976)