(Babe) Paley’s Law
Barbara 'Babe' Paley
You can never be too skinny or too rich.
Bacon’s Law
Francis Bacon
Money is like muck not good except it be spread.
Bronfman’s Law of Accumulation
Edgar Bronfman
To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable.
Dewdney’s Law of Zero Return
A. K. Dewdney
Return on investment equals loss due to inflation plus taxes . . . which equals zero.
Galbraith’s First Law
John Kenneth Galbraith
The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.
Gresham’s Law
Thomas Gresham
Bad money drives out good - meaning that debased or underweight coins will drive good money out of circulation as people squirrel away the more valuable coins in mattresses and other hiding places.
Haight’s Brokerage Law
Keith Haight
When the market is stable it is a good time to buy, but when it is going up, buy quickly to catch the rising tide. When the market is going down, however, it is a good time to buy, as it will soon turn up. When it has been going down for some time (”crash” is a nasty word, not to be used) it must be at the bottom, and can only go up so BUY BUY BUY. Bye-bye!
Kipling’s Law of Blackmail
Rudyard Kipling
If once you have paid him the Dane-geld / You never get rid of the Dane.
Micawber’s First Law
Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Midas’s Law
John Updike
Possession diminishes perception of value immediately.
Narrow your search:
