Clarence Clemons Quotes

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.

Physical wealth has not necessarily been very secure.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

In capitalist enterprise there is no secure income and no security of wealth.

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

Investors have few spare tires left. Think of the image of a car on a bumpy road to an uncertain destination that has already used up its spare tire. The cash reserves of people have been eaten up by the recent market volatility.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

At the end of a down day on Wall Street, we all need to be able to sleep peacefully at night. That comfort won't come from our bank balance.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

The wealth acquired by speculation and plunder, is fugacious in its nature, and fills society with the spirit of gambling.

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'

Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist.