VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers .

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

The financial climate is the worst it's been in 25 years.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Today is a... digital incarnation of Oz - the Internet - we are a motley group of fools from lions to scarecrows, learning from each other, making and taking responsibility for our decisions, and having fun as we skip down the yellow brick road of investing together!

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

...the only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.