Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.
- Joseph A. Schumpeter - Topics: Capitalism, Change.
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
- George Soros - Topics: Money Management.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers - Topics: Tax, Government.
I put it to you: if you rob people of their ability to determine their own future, they will turn to violence.
- Nigel Farage - Topics: Government, Eurocrisis, Debt, Austerity.
Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero.
- Voltaire - Topics: Fiat Currency.
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
- John Maynard Keynes - Topics: Fiat Currency.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Stock Market.
The goal of the good trader, paradoxically, is not to make money. His goal is to trade well.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.
- Friedrich A. Hayek - Topics: Fiat Currency, Government, Inflation.
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Government.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
- John Kenneth Galbraith - Topics: Economist.
I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop.
- Friedrich A. Hayek - Topics: Banking System, Central Bank, Cryptocurrency, Government.
