Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. – Joseph Wood Krutch

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. – John Maynard Keynes

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. – Honore de Balzac

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

The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. – Martin Feldstein

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth… both financial affluence and emotional security. – Suze Orman

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes. – Alfred Marshall

We’ve taken the view that if the rest of the world would democratize and create market economies, that would spread the benefits of prosperity around the world, and that it would enhance our own prosperity, and our own stability and security, as well. – Jeffrey Sachs

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in. – John D. Rockefeller

Don’t gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don’t go up, don’t buy it. – Will Rogers