Smart money is just dumb money that’s been through a crash. — Naval Ravikant
In the stock market as in poker, the money tends to move from stupid to intelligent hands. — Thomas Phelps
The wise investor can profit if he can think independently of the crowd and reach the rich answer when the majority of financial opinion is leaning the other way. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Skillful investors, risk, stability, dependability of value, relationship between price and value — Howard Marks
Millions of people are competing for each available dollar of investment gain. Who’ll get it? The person who’s a step ahead. — Howard S. Marks
Skillful risk control is the mark of the superior investor. — Howard S. Marks
It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized. — John Neff
Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose. — T. Harv Eker
Most profitable investment actions, contrarian, buying when others are selling, selling when others are buying — Howard Marks
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. — Robin Leach
Smart investing doesn't consist of buying good assets, but of buying assets well. — Howard Marks
Investing favors the dispassionate. Markets efficiently separate emotional investors from their money. — Naval Ravikant
To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. — Merton Miller
Better to lose money in a good company rather than making money in a bad one. — Vijay Kedia
Too much money, risky and new, asset prices, prospective returns, safety — Howard Marks
Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn
Far more money can be made by good stock selection, than by good market timing. — Thomas Phelps
The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting. — Charlie Munger
Superior investing is taking advantage of the errors of others. — Howard Marks
Bulls make money and bears make money, but hogs just get slaughtered. — American Proverbs
Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks. — Bernard Madoff
When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong. — Carl Icahn
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
What Is Money Quotes
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving. — Warren Buffett
In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy. — Trevor Noah
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart. — Joni Mitchell
The smarter you get, the less you speak.
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. — Winona LaDuke
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others? — Barack Obama
What I don't like about the music industry is everything. It's very Satanic, people are evil, they talk about money, they talk about things that don't really matter, and they brainwash everybody. — Hopsin
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money. — Phil Crosby
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett
You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me — Nipsey Hussle
People typically only believe they're in a negotiation when dollars are involved. And maybe sometimes they're smart enough to see if there's a commodity that you can count being exchanged. And, of course, the commodity that we most commonly exchange is money. — Chris Voss
I am not smart. I am not good-looking. I don't have — Changpeng Zhao
I believe if you're smart enough, you can make money doing anything. — MrBeast
The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go. — Bill Smith
Be smart with your money because money can make life a little easier. — 21 Savage
Now that I do have money in my bank account, I want to help kids with a background similar to mine to get smart about their money. — 21 Savage
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle
One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity. — Robert Kiyosaki
When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself and placed smart people around me. I surrounded myself with people who not only are intelligent and effective about finances, taxes, and money management, but they (also) love me. — Steve Harvey
I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid. — Paris Hilton
Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about. — Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make. — Robert Kiyosaki
If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money. — Bruno Mars
Don't look too far in the future, don't worry about how you're going to have enough time or enough money or enough smarts; the "how?" is up to God. Just put your whole focus on this moment, doing this baby step at this moment; and then once you finish that one, God and the angels will give you the next assignment and so on and so forth. — Doreen Virtue
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. — Seneca
These stunt guys are good at what they do and they're professional. A smart actor will step back and say, "I'm going to let the professionals do this." Hats off to those guys, man. When you see the credits scroll, look at all those stunt guys and remember all those names 'cause they earned their money on this. — James Badge Dale
At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency, designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions all good things — Peter Diamandis
If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math. — Danica McKellar
I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes. — Kirsty Gallacher
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women. — Frank Crowninshield
Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When we were young, there weren't very many smart people in the investment world. You should have seen the people in the bank trust departments. Now, there are armies of smart people at private investment funds, etc . If there were a crisis now, there would be a lot more people with a lot of money ready to take advantage. — Charlie Munger
Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two. — Larry King
People love fast. When you're fast people think you're smart, think your products are of higher quality, think your management is of higher quality, think that you're worth more and they're willing to pay more money for it. So, I'm really big into speed. — Brian Tracy
I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. — Warren Buffett
You could have all the money in the world, but you have to be smart enough knowing how to spend it. I really try to be on that smart money side. Once you make a serious mistake you can suffer five or six years, and I do my best to avoid serious mistakes. — Mikhail Prokhorov
I think we can save a lot of money if we do smart growth, where we build the homes and all of this closer into towns. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money. — Lizzy Caplan
Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written! — Tim Wynne-Jones
Frugality includes all the other virtues. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing. I've never borrowed a significant amount of money in my life. Never. Never will. I've got no interest in it. — Warren Buffett
It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence. — Santino Fontana
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. — Michael Lewis
Obama wants to build such things as smart electrical grids and high-speed rail lines, which will offer big environmental improvements. Another obvious thing is that large-scale project financing is virtually frozen, so a lot of renewable energy projects are on hold. If the system doesn't get unclogged before the developers run out of cash, they will be cancelled. Money matters, and we are racing against time. — Denis Hayes
We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just looking for the opportunity. Obviously, a person who is really dumb is not gonna make a zillion dollars. But for a person who is really smart, really smart, it's a boring pursuit. It's not endlessly fascinating. — Fran Lebowitz
Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. — G. K. Chesterton
When you're on a series, it's tough to go on and do something else afterward. If you're smart, save your money and you can wait out the bad times, until something else comes along. — Michael Dorn
If I could have come in for $10m, I would have done that. I've been pretty smart with my money. I'm playing because I want to play this game here - I want the opportunity. — Karl Malone
I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago. — Chris O'Donnell
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. — Bruce Schneier
I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money. — John Hickenlooper
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