History Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is not a leap to suggest that all of the distinctive advances made between 1500 and today, for better or worse, were directly…

— Eric Robert Morse

“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.”

— Thomas Sowell

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“During the Hundred Years War financial transactions might be conducted in money of account (a conventional measure of value) or money of payment (i.e.…

— David Green

The turn of the century was the age of the banker, so much so that the leading bankers of the day had become legendary…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

— Anonymous

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they…

— Carroll Quigley

“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a…

— Hannah Arendt

“In a way, finance was even better than art. It was nothing but an expression of potential, of power, of our present moment in…

— Jade Chang

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history

— Karl Marx

“financial transactions have displaced the production of goods or services as the source of private fortunes, distorting the value we place upon different kinds…

— Tony Judt

The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in…

— John Maynard Keynes