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"Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth." »Sidney Madwed
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"I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission." »Robert Burns
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"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer." »William Shakespeare
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"There are two main reasons that caused mainstream economists and financial media to miss the financial crisis of 2008. The first is the NIH (Not Invented Here) bias, which is an organizational phenomenon manifested as an unwillingness to adopt an idea because it originates from unknown outsiders. It is a form of social cognition bias that leads to errors in group judgments such as missing on new opportunities or risks. The second reason is a cognition bias known as the Confirmation Bias which is the tendency to search for, filter in, or interpret information in a way that confirms existing preconceptions. The Confirmation Bias is recognized as an individual cognition bias, but when met with (NIH) bias it appears to develop into a social bias very similar to the Groupthink syndrome." »Med Jones
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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." »Woody Allen
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"My financial situation disables me...can I file for disability?" »Katherine Markovich
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"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals" »Jules Renard
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"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it." »Harold S. Geneen
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"There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not." »Willie Nelson
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"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The
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"All financial rations being equal, I prefer to invest in multinational companies with more diversified sources of income and who can benefit from the higher growth of the emerging markets." »Med Jones
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"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together." »Robert Reich
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"The adage that knowledge is power is true. In the world of financial markets and investments, knowledge is the ultimate power. Educate yourself before you invest, if you know something that others don't, you will make a lot of money" »Med Jones
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"chief of the Army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots
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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." »William Shakespeare
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is expected from the government officials and the financial sector to selectively report on the good news to avoid investors panic and maintain confidence in the economy. Unfortunately building confidence has been the name of the game since the beginning of the crisis rather than real economic reforms." »Med Jones
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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." »Sir Walter Scott
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception." »Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." »H.L. Mencken
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"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets." »Oscar Wilde
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were." »Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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