Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense. ”

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor. ”

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. ”

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ”

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ”

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. ”

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual. ”

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ”

To diminish the cases in which the assistance of others is felt absolutely necessary is the only genuine road to independence. ”

Law is made for man and not man for the law. Wherever we can be sure that the most valuable interests of a nation require that we should decide one way, that way we ought to decide. ”