The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- Albert Einstein - Topics: Tax, Government.
This EU is the New Communism. It is Power without Limits.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Eurocrisis.
In this business, if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Trader, Stock Market, Investing.
Bad money drives out good. (When a government or central bank overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation)
- Thomas Gresham - Topics: Fiat Currency.
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 - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
Hope is not a strategy.
- John Mauldin - Topics: Central Bank, Monetary Policy.
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.
- George Soros - Topics: Economist.
Economic history is a long record of Government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Government.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Government.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
- Alan Greenspan - Topics: Inflation, Gold, Fiat Currency.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
- Friedrich A. Hayek - Topics: Economist.
If you let the market make you feel high or low, you will lose money.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
