Prepare for the Future!

“There’s no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and the U.S. economy would become less of a magnet for foreign investors. Economic growth, which in any case has recently been at unsustainable levels, would decline somewhat. History proves, however, that a smart central bank can protect the economy and the financial sector from the nastier side effects of a stock market collapse." Ben Bernanke.

"To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education--literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills." Alan Greenspan

"It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making" Alan Greenspan

"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
- Robert W. Sarnoff

"I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse."
- Clinton Jones

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
- Michael Pritchard

"I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them a penny because I lived near the seaside."
- Ken Dodd

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
- John Paul Getty

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."
- Woody Allen

"Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out."
- Will Rogers

"My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil."
- John Paul Getty

"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it."
- Rebecca Johnson

"Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy."
- Spike Milligan