During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company’s market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it’s made by Warren Buffett.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital – in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

If you must invest in paper, learn to be an options trader. Then you will know how to make money whether the markets are going up or down.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

The rich continue to get rich the same way they always have – by understanding how money works and making their money work for them.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Many U.S. investors are already investing overseas rather than at home.

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

No one saw the recession coming.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

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.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Buy land. They ain’t making any more of the stuff.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don’t invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.