The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.
- Albert Einstein - Topics: Tax, Government.
The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
- Frédéric Bastiat - Topics: Government.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations - six if one went to Harvard.
- Edgar R. Fiedler - Topics: Economist.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
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.
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.
Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other. If government spending is financed by borrowing from the commercial banks, it means credit expansion and inflation.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Debt, Government, Monetary Policy, Tax.
Any fool can buy a company. You should be congratulated when you sell.
- Henry Kravis - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
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.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
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.
In the long run, inflation comes to an end with the breakdown of the currency.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Inflation.
