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It sounds extraordinary but it’s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

What is high finance? It’s knowing the difference between one and ten, multiplying, subtracting and adding. You just add noughts. It’s no more than that.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that’s the way the world is.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out.

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.