A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Government.
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Investing, Money Management, Stock Market.
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.
- George Soros - Topics: Money Management.
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.
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.
It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford - Topics: Banking System, Fiat Currency.
When confidence goes, the end is very near. It always comes faster than anyone expects and it always seems to be unexpected.
- John Mauldin - Topics: Debt, Default.
The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Government.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan - Topics: Tax, Government.
Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.
- Sir Josiah Stamp - Topics: Banking System.
