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Investment Proverbs – Founding Fathers Quotes

July 31, 2011

Alexander Hamilton Quote

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish; and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

James Madison Quote

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Have you something to do tomorrow; do it today.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

No nation was ever ruined by trade, even seemingly the most disadvantageous.

Remember, time is money.

They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

George Washington Quotes

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

John Adams Quote

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

Thomas Paine Quote

Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.

The Arbor Investment Planner wasn’t around when our founding fathers gave us these words of wisdom. But I’m sure they would have recommended a sound and risk adverse strategy similar to my philosophy.

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Ken Faulkenberry earned an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business with an emphasis in investments. Ken has 25 years of investment experience and is dedicated to helping people with self-directed investment management through the Arbor Investment Planner. His asset allocation strategies have an outstanding performance record.

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