Quotes on Savings

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Savings and investment are indissolubly linked. It is impossible to encourage one and discourage the other.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.