Financial Philosophers Gifts

'We blame all our accounting problems on our computers--so we're upgrading to a model with an 'ethics' component.'

Wall St. or True Love.

'I've just had a terrible nightmare that we were living sensibly, within our budget!'

'Love gets the credit, but business makes the world go round.'

"As a nation, we may be spending our children's money, but at my house it's the other way around."

'I sculpt what I see, Miss Delsey.'

'Two can live as cheaply as one, but I refuse to live with a cheapskate.'

"So the only way to save the economy is to spend what we haven't got - plus ca change - moin ca change!"

"No I can't imagine, but I can dream!"

'You and your tax-avoidance schemes!'

'A fool and his money soon part' and other sage bits of advice - insert $1000.

"I'd feel a lot better if I had $41,568,946 in my checking account."

Economic Crisis

'Whoever said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' never had a room full of angry shareholders.'

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

'I don't know if money grows on trees, son. I know it doesn't grow in fields.'

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

Economic Outlook Conference - 'Remember the seating is optimist, pessimist, optimist,...'

'It's crunch time, Caldwell. That's the time between when you're born, and when you make your first million.'

Flat tax - equal burden?

US dollar perched on fragile house of cards.

Stockbroker and Psychotherapist: Money won't make you happy and therapy won't make you rich.

'. . .actually I'm not a real Guru, I was forced up here originally by the property prices.'

Money god

"I was a stockbroker first, but when I realized how much time I spent praying, I figured, what the heck?"

"Yes, I am interested in taking a fresh look at my holdings."

'We need people who dream the impossible dreams - like pensions and health care.'

"Money is life's report card."

Economic Downturns

'We were in the right place at the right time but, unfortunately, we were in the wrong time zone.'

'I got a big refund on my income tax.'

Accountant Manqué

"Lucky for you, you died during a bear market."

"Stocks edged lower on the news there's more to life than the accumulation of material things..."

"The problem with capitalism is the unequal sharing of wealth. The problem with socialism is the equal sharing of wealth..."