Famous advice on Finance






Asset pricing, capital budgeting, raising and management, risk management, corporate governance, budgeting, financial forecasting, cash management, funds procurement, mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, international finance and investing management, multiple financial concepts, complex investment decision making and value based management: the world of today's financial executives is complex and is changing rapidly. This page offers free advice by great thinkers to financial managers providing ideas, concepts, techniques and practices that are needed to make smart financial decisions in an increasingly competitive business environment.

The wisest advice on finance


#1

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

William Bruce Cameron in "Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking" (1963), American Professor of Sociology


#2

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869–1948, Indian deep thinker and constant experimenter


#3

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Donald Trump 1946-, American Businessman


#4

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie 1890-1976, The Queen of Crime


#5

Accountants are the witch-doctors of the modern world and willing to turn their hands to any kind of magic.

Charles Eustace Harman 1894-1970, British judge



The wittiest financial advice


#1

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen 1935-, brilliant comedian, actor, director, screenwriter and playwright


#2

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost, American poet


#3

The surest way to ruin a man who does not know how to handle money is to give him some.

George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish critic and playwright


#4

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen 1935-, brilliant comedian, actor, director, screenwriter and playwright


#5

I want a man who`s kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

Zsa Zsa Gabor 1917-, Hungarian actress and prototypical "professional celebrity": famous merely for being famous


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