Money Quotes by Ronnie Wood, Meek Mill, Pamela Moore, John Kenneth Galbraith, Mose Allison, Roswell Dwight Hitchcock and many others.
I’m terrible with money, absolutely awful. I’m always losing it.
I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.
Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.
Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
Money is a needful and precious thing
I have no one to leave the money to. I’m a single man. I like spending my money.
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be ‘materialistic’ and ‘greedy’ to want to keep what you have earned. But it is ‘idealistic’ to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.
Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.
For as the old saying is,
When house and land are gone and spent
Then learning is most excellent.
When house and land are gone and spent
Then learning is most excellent.
All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.
I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.
I’m as poor as a church mouse, that’s just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.
I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It’s like driving a car. It’s simple if you know how to do it.
That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?
I find money some way or other goes very fast. But I think I can reflect it has been spent with satisfaction and to my own honour.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.
I don’t mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I’ve saved all year.
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn’t require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Making money is pretty pointless and it needs constant attention.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
Anybody who dies with money in the bank is a failure.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it… I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
I wonder now if you ever remember… Whether your June is all turned to December… Gone are those winters of chats and of dances… Gone the aroma of life’s young romances… Ah! well enough, as you dance on in joyance… Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
I’m an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don’t get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.
Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don’t live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.
They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
War is big business. It’s a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.
They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we’ve all got a limited stock of that.
And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
There’s just one thing I can’t figure out. My income tax!
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don’t have to worry about anything ever again.
It’s about legacy, it’s about moments, it’s about being an icon – I’ll do what I do and the money will flow.
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
Diversify your investments.
Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
A good reader or viewer is a person who is alert about her newspaper or news channel. A good reader or viewer will never waste her hard-earned money in watching or reading just anything. She is serious. She will have to think if the news she is consuming is journalism or sycophancy.
It’d be nice to make lots of money but it’s quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn’t count.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Incorruptibility by money is the old story… Now it’s incorruptibility by media.
A beautiful deleveraging balances the three options. In other words, there is a certain amount of austerity, there is a certain amount of debt restructuring, and there is a certain amount of printing of money. When done in the right mix, it isn’t dramatic.
Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.
I’ve been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.
Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We’re not using borrowed money to grow. So we’ll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn’t work, we’ll close it and lose a little equity. It won’t kill us.
If something’s expensive to develop, and somebody’s not going to get paid, it won’t get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
Trade it may help, society extend,
But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation’s aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d.
But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend:
It raises armies in a nation’s aid,
But bribes a senate, and the land’s betray’d.
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.
What’s money without happiness?
Perhaps the most important use of money – It saves time. Life is so short, and there’s so much to do, one can’t afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
He who knows he has enough is rich.
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn’t the top priority.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
Great spenders are bad lenders.
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.
We all like to see everybody make a profit… a very little.
I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Get to live;
Then live, and use it; else, it is not true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone.
Then live, and use it; else, it is not true
That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone
Makes money not a contemptible stone.
Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah’s money, he’d jump out of a window and slit his throat on the way down saying, ‘I can’t even put gas in my plane!’
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.
My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
The Madcap Heiress, isn’t that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.
Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?
Don’t just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o’ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.
Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.
Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau’s idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.
I don’t ask for much. I don’t ask to be rich, and I don’t ask to be famous, and I don’t ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.
Often, the more money you make the more money you spend; that’s why more money doesn’t make you rich – assets make you rich.
It’s amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas – not money.
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
You don’t want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can’t enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.
There were few who preferred honor to money.
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no ‘y’ in it.
Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, ‘Don’t worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.’
Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn’t mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.
The first duty of man is to support himself – to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.
We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven’t had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We’ve got to move to other sources of energy. But we’ve gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It’s not a good future.
They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
If a man’s religion does not affect his use of money, that man’s religion is vain.
Making money is a happiness. And that’s a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect.
Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn’t such a great problem. It’s when you don’t know the two points that it’s difficult.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.
Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
I almost went to Central Saint Martins for fashion design. I deferred for a year when I graduated high school so that I could go model and make some money and immerse myself in the fashion industry for a year.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift… The hangover comes the day after.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.
My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.
Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others… it rises fromВ yourВ heart.
Money makes a man laugh.
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune’s sake.
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn’t enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong.
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
Now that I’m gettin old enough to get some money, I’d like to have some money. I don’t get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another – usually about as many times as it can be got there.
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.
You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
There’s no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he’ll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.
My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don’t be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
I’m going to teach you to HATE spending money.
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Money can’t buy life.
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
I appreciate your applause, but I don’t do it for applause. I do it for cash, it’s much better.
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
Do what you love and the money will follow.
You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Money doesn’t make people happy. People make people happy.
If I had all the money I’d spent on drink, I’d spend it on drink.
Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.
You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.
Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.
The substitute for knowledge is money.
We can’t constantly explain to our voters that taxpayers have to be on the hook for certain risks, rather than those who make a lot of money taking those risks.
The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.
A fool and his money are soon married.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.
Money is the probably the most successful story ever told. It has no objective value… but then you have these master storytellers: the big bankers, the finance ministers… and they come, and they tell a very convincing story.
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
How many things I can do without!
If money go before, all ways do lie open.
Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won’t eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
There’s not a lot of money in revenge.
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that’s why we do this job. It’s not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it’s for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
I think everything depends on money.
Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
When you don’t have any money, any things, any house – if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached – a beggar in the palace – then something very deep has been attained.
Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn’t have to produce anything. You’ve never been out of college. You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector … they expect results!
Being real is what keeps me humble. It doesn’t matter how much money I make or how much I accomplish. What’s critical is staying real to myself and keeping my feet on the ground. That’s what helps keep me going.
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
Money may not be your best friend, but it’s the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
Power just goes to two poles — to those who’ve got money, and those who’ve got people.
Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn’t know any women.
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
I love money, but will money ever love me in return?
You have to be cynical because this is a business. Everyone is making money out of you.
I just don’t believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I’ve based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It’s something that I’ve always exploited – with good results.
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.
Where’s the great pay? Where’s the travel? Where’s the Winnebago, Goddamnit!
We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
I’d have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn’t enjoy spending it.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn’t pay the rent. We wouldn’t throw them out so we lost the building.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
People who don’t respect money don’t have any.
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.
Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin – we’re talking about hundreds of millions, billions of dollars moving in – it’s going to have a pretty dramatic effect on the price.
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest need but to the children of the highest bidder-the child of parents who, more frequently than not, have also enjoyed the same abundance when they were schoolchildren.
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.
Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don’t be fooled by the money I’m still just young and unlucky, I’m surprised you couldn’t tell
Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn’t getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I’d always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I’d always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
I didn’t get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
My life honestly isn’t as weird as people think it is. I work longer hours, maybe I have a bit more money, but fundamentally, I’m not really that different.
To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
Money in the hand is real – coins and bills. The rest I don’t believe in, and I don’t think I ever did, really. What’s a check, after all, but a promise – mine, the bank’s. Me, I know, but the bank?
My experience indicates that most people who’ve accumulated a great deal of wealth haven’t had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.
Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
It’s traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that’s true of me, but it actually was.
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
I’m a little lavish I must admit. But I’m not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
I hire tea by the tea bag.
If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.
What are the characteristics of today’s world so that one may recognize it by them?” It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.
You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
You must spend money to make money.
I haven’t got as much money as some folks, but I’ve got as much impudence as any of them, and that’s the next thing to money.
War is hugely profitable. It creates so much money because it’s so easy to spend money very fast. There are huge fortunes to be made. So there is always an encouragement to promote war and keep it going, to make sure that we identify people who are ‘others’ whom we can legitimately make war upon.
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
Yes, money is important. But it’s all about the creative process.
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.
Money is just an idea.
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
Stamps God’s own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
I’ve been a politician and so I’m sometimes cynical about what politicians won’t do. When I hear a politician say something that makes no sense whatsoever, I think there’s one of two things there: There’s money or the promise of money.
I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
Here’s how I think of my money – as soldiers – I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there’s more of them.
I’ve made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family’s income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?
Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
You can make money two ways – make more, or spend less.
Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
You breathe better when you’re rich.
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
When you ain’t got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
The mind always hankers for more and more. If you have money, it hankers for more money; if you have prestige, it hankers for more prestige; if you have knowledge, it hankers for more knowledge. Mind lives in the ‘more.’
People say, ‘Well you know the economy’s bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow’s money, and other people’s money maybe… We Chinese love to save money.
No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.
There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can’t stand still. It must grow or perish.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
There is nothing earthly that lasts so well, as money. A man’s learning dies with him, as does his virtues fade out of remembrance, but the dividends on the stocks he bequeaths to his children live and keep his memory green.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
It’s hard in a monetary system to trust people.
What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?
And you can’t have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can’t be done.
How we use our money is the clearest outside indicator of what we really believe. … If someone is a true disciple of Jesus Christ, the evidence will be found in that person’s everyday life – including his or her use of money.
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don’t really dress; they are too conservative, as it’s always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
In a sluggish economy, never, ever f*** with another man’s livelihood.
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?
Money isn’t everything as long as you have enough.
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
We need to make a game out of earning money. There is so much good we can do with money. Without it, we are bound and shackled and our choices become limited.
Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.
Money is always on its way somewhere; we are only a way station. What we do with it while it’s in our keeping will say much about us – as will the direction it takes after we speed it on its way.
Three groups spend other people’s money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
I’ve looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
Money has never yet made anyone rich.
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It’s embarrassing to say, but I didn’t even realize that people bought contemporary art… that people actually paid for it… I know that’s really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.
There’s nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel – only a means to an end.
To the extent that we’ve got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.
O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.
Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
money is an acquired taste that grows as it is fed.
How pleasant it is to have money.
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there’s too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.
Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money.
Football is now all about money. There are problems with the values within the game. This is sad because football is the most beautiful game. We can play it in the street. We can play it everywhere.
If you’re really serious about protecting people’s incomes, you’ve got to consider how you’re going to protect the dollar. If you don’t have the dollar maintaining its value, no matter where you put the money you’re not going to have any value.
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame,
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They
are!
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They
are!
In America, money takes the place of God.
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
Quality is free. It’s not a gift, but it’s free. The ‘unquality’ things are what cost money.
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas – more than money – are the real currency for success.
Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough.
I can’t draw a stick person. I can’t play a musical instrument. But I’ve always had a knack for making money.
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.
It’s amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?
To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.
Being is good, but getting rich is better…. If the gods had only the riches of men’s adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they’ve not idea what money’s for- Ten to one they’ll start another war. I’ve heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor’! Fancy giving money to the Government!
Carpe per diem – seize the check.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
If we get the donations, I think we’re going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.
I’ve always been the one who struggled financially, so now it’s so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.
It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.
What’s with the poverty Tourette’s? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?
There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.
Money has no country.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
Money is a poor man’s credit card.
I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn’t matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
How much do I owe you?
I like money. It’s fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It’s just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain’s hat and a coin changer.
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we’re not free spenders- doesn’t know our like.
money is a more taboo subject than sex. If you don’t believe me, think about this: you have friends who tell you the intimate details of their sex-lives but they would be shocked if you asked them how much money they make.
Money is good, love is wealth.
My father used to say, ‘You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.’ How to give something back, that’s the tough part in life.
There is no accountability in soft money. None.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
What’s keeping you from being rich? In most cases it’s simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.
When I talk to girls, they go, ‘I’m not a feminist.’ And I say: ‘What? You don’t want to vote? Do you want to be owned by your husband? Do you want your money from your job to go into his bank account? If you were raped, do you still want that to be a crime? Congratulations : you are a feminist.’
We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster’s paradise.
Money is the best deodorant.
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
I don’t think business news is just for old white men with money.
No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart – preferably the female, to look after the baby.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can’t drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against ’em anyway, you don’t belong in office.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Listen! We’re not just doing this for the money! We’re doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!
Doing things you’re passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.
I never fight for the money, but every person is different.
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible – and then forget them, because they aren’t.
No man should be in public office who can’t make more money in private life.
As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him.
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.
Remember that credit is money.
Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
You’re only the boss if you put up your own money.
His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
[On retirement savings:] Gone today, here tomorrow.
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex – but that did not characterize my service.
I’m not heart-broken if I don’t have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.
There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.
The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.
Time is a waste of money.
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don’t want to make money that way. I don’t want blood money.
The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it’s not the poorest. It’s not the people at the economic fringes. It’s people who worked hard and played by the rules.
I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I’m doing is making money off other people’s creativity, and I’m not creating anything myself.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
The darkest day in a man’s career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
Money comes to life as it is spent.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
I think it was ‘The Diary of Alicia Keys’. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money. I had a little Discman.
I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
Money is like a flower. If you squeeze it, you will crush the life out of it. You must let it blossom forth to reveal its full beauty.
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.
I’m not a writer because I want to make money. I’m a writer because I’m a very slow thinker, but I do care about thinking, and the only way I know how to think with any kind of finesse is by telling stories.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.
My advice to the unborn is, don’t be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
I’m not trying to make friends, I’m trying to make money.
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.
Big money isn’t hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
Varied are the ideas of what constitutes “success,” e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.
I don’t take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won’t find a job in my White House.
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Global warming is part of natural cycle and there’s nothing we can actually do to stop these cycles. The world is now facing spending a vast amount of money in tax to try to solve a problem that doesn’t actually exist.
You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
Debt is dumb. Cash is king.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
I don’t make any money.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.
It’s the Government’s job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Becoming rich isn’t as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.
When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.
the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.
Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well.
I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.
And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
Her voice is full of money.
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
A fool and his money are soon partying.
Money doesn’t give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.
They say Yogi Berra is funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What’s funny about that?
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
We have always believed that it’s possible to make money without being evil.
A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.
There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.
This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it’s going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.
I think people’s perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it’s not about money.
Well, there’s one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.
Money doesn’t grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.
Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.
We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.
To find a clear identity for the team – that is not about buying certain players for a lot of money. It is about getting players who want to play the right way.
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.
It takes a great person to walk away from money.
Thought, not money, is the real business capital.
Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
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.
People will always choose more money over more sex
If we think we have ours and don’t owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Debt has become a part of who we are.
General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it’s a system of trade, but it’s not my purpose and reason for living.
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
I’m going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there.
He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers’ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
I want to make it clear what I am not saying. I am not saying that fiat money, once established on the ruins of gold, cannot then continue indefinitely on its own.
Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser’s toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.
Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.
I don’t care how rich and successful a man is. He’s nothing without an education.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.
It’s only money, honey.
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I don’t have to believe in Feng Shui, I do it because it makes me money.
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop
The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.
There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you’re looking for. The secret is simplicity. The more elementary your investment style, the more confident you can be of making money in the long run.
The most popular labor saving device is still money.
She meant it as a compliment.
The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don’t think he’ll raise it out of the New York people, I don’t think he’s going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where’s the money going to come from for Barack Obama?
My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money’s come, nothing’s changed.
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
It’s all about the money.
If one man has a dollar he didn’t work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn’t get.
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.
… money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.
I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
I don’t want to be one of those rappers who had it, but right now they be on a TV show to keep them going. I would rather be out the scene, getting my money on Bitcoin.
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
It’s easier to get rich than it is to explain not getting rich.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.
I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.
God is a luxury I can’t afford.
It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble… to give way to hope, fear and greed.
Money: power at its most liquid.
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.
Money was a big differentiator when I was growing up, but I made sure it doesn’t stay that way.
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.
World events do not occur by accident. They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money. And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
Poverty has many roots, but the tap root is ignorance.
Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
I believe Bitcoin is a very convenient way to shop and to transfer money to any account around the world. Governments should work around a framework for the currency instead of putting restrictions on it.
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
I never cared about money.
It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers. It is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty through such an approach. I describe this premise as ‘inherent buildability’, and I believe it is central to what I do.
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he’s a criminal instead of a scholar. It’s business.
Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.
The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don’ts.
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
All money is a matter of belief.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.
Over the years I’ve learned being rich doesn’t really have anything to do with money. That’s being wealthy.
Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – Did you ever try buying them without money?
It is my opinion that a man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
Money was their God; work their religion.
VIP RosГ© you can have a beer Cuz honey when you gettin money you don’t have a care
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
While money doesn’t buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
I refuse to apologize for my ability — I refuse to apologize for my success — I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of it.
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men’s hearts or where stronger scorn is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found While journeying east and west – The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don’t personally care.
Governments have persistently tried their best to promote, encourage, and expand the circulation of bank and government paper, and to discourage the people’s use of gold itself.
Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother’s ability for spending money, and my father’s ability for not earning it.
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
I don’t like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
My goal isn’t to make money, it’s to try and survive and make a point.
You, O money, are the cause of a restless life! Because of you we journey toward a premature death; you provide cruel nourishment for the evils of men; the seed of our cares sprouts from your head.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever… money, for instance, or war.
Somebody said once ‘Follow the money’ and that is what it is all about.
Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money,’ but they changed it to ‘alimony.’ It’s ripping your heart out through your wallet.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
It’s easier to force feed people than it is to give ’em what they want. It makes more money.
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
The seven deadly sins… food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man’s neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.
Money doesn’t make me – I make the money.
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
People who care nothing about money probably exist or we wouldn’t hear so much about them. But I’ve never encountered one in the flesh.
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.
Insist that the first question each of us asks isn’t “What’s good for me?” but “What’s good for the country my children will inherit?
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don’t give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
Money just draws flies.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.
Don’t spend all of your money a quarter at a time. Save up and buy something special, something fine, something of lasting value, or something that will give you rich memories for a lifetime. Remember, all that candy money can add up to a small fortune.
By definition, saving – for anything – requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.
Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.
I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
What’s a soup kitchen?
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
I remember thinking that I’d way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I’d way rather spend more time with them.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
I’m going to get down to a still life on a size 50 canvas of rayfish and dogfish with old fishermen’s baskets. Then I’m going to turn out a few pictures to send wherever possible, given that now, first and foremost – unfortunately – I have to earn some money.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
Well, farmers never have made money. I don’t believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.
When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
I just can’t stop myself; I’m addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner.
Don’t judge me. I made a lot of money.
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants – more than anything else – to become rich. As long as they don’t have the money, it’ll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they’ll understand how important other things are – and have always been.
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
In nature, all is managed for the best with perfect frugality and just reserve, profuse to none, but bountiful to all; never employing on one thing more than enough, but with exact economy retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal in everything.
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.
Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil.
I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that’s a great thing to do.
From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.
The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.
Where there is a will, there’s prosperity around the corner.
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Yes! Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.
But he couldn’t lie if you paid him and he’d starve before he stole.
It’s simple arithmetic: “Your income can grow only to the extent you do.”
If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen
Money begets money. If you don’t have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that’s generating income for yourself.
The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.
I like money, but it’s never been about the money.
The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.
[T]he essence of so-called war prosperity: it enriches some by what it takes from others. It is not rising wealth but a shifting of wealth and income.
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.
Feelings about money — saving and spending, holding back and letting go — start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren’t ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Money doesn’t spend in hell…. The devil deals in a different coin.
Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, ‘This time it’s different.’
Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.
Everything you have, whether it’s money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.
I used to think that if I made $50,000 I’d be the happiest guy in the world.
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Just because you’re working does not mean you’re making money. That’s two very different things in show business.
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
Like having your own licence to print money.
I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
By the way, food and rent aren’t the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
All my life’s about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn’t cost very much money.
…existence has become an unreasoning, wild dance around the golden calf, a mad worship of God Mammon. In that dance and in that worship man has sacrificed all his finer qualities of the heart and soul — kindness and justice, honor and manhood, compassion and sympathy with his fellowman.
No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.
If you have “needing money” in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn’t bring happiness – but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY.
Here at work, obviously, I make the most money of anyone on the show, so I try to be the first one here and the last one to leave. I have the crummiest office. I try to balance things out, spread it around.
All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health.
It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.
Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life’s little pleasures.
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.
Money is a great dignifier.
I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn’t want to depend on somebody to do it for me.
He who is greedy is always in want.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
Truly wealthy people develop the habit of “getting rich slow” rather than “getting rich quick.” To assure this, they have two rules with regard to money. Rule number one: Don’t lose money. Rule number two: If ever you feel tempted, refer back to rule number one, “don’t lose money.”
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.
I’m not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don’t have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That’s the bottom line.
The greatest luxury of having money should be not having to worry about it.
And plenty makes us poor.
Now that you’re Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?
Live like you’ll die tomorrow, work like you don’t need the money, and dance like nobody’s watching.
People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
I am only interested in money because everyone else is.
When a fellow says, ‘It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,’ it’s the money.
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
The Berlin Wall wasn’t the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I’m going to turn on the lights.
It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor – as long as you’ve got money.
A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Companies should not have a singular view of profitability. There needs to be a balance between commerce and social responsibility… The companies that are authentic about it will wind up as the companies that make more money.
If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.
I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or ‘chosen’ or feel they have an entitlement… be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.
I wouldn’t sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
It all comes down to this: if your subconscious “financial blueprint” is not “set” for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
…we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It’s not winning the lottery. It’s a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
Money is the only thing you can use even if you don’t have any. … There’s always a credit card.
Short accounts make long friends.
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can’t tear the toilet paper.
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t want power, you’ll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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This is quotes copyright В© By Pumpkin Limited
There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I’m almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.
I’ve lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that’s something that makes you better at my job, not worse.
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
People with little money seldom realize that people who have a lot of money are also frightened. … If security is based on having money, it doesn’t matter whether you have a little or a lot, you’re going to be afraid.
The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money’s worth.
And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.
When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everything we think we own is in reality only being loaned to us until we die. And on our deathbed at the moment of death, no one but God can save our souls.
As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That’s why so many parents don’t teach their kids about money.
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
Money is a great servant but a bad master.
Money will come when you are doing the right thing.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don’t want to do.
I’m not interested in making money. It’s just that with my talent, I’m cursed with it.
Good grooming is integral and impeccable style is a must. If you don’t look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.
Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?
Talking about money is garish. It’s tacky.
Money is just a way of keeping score.
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, ‘What for?’ I said, ‘I’m going to buy some sugar.’
The entire planet is drawn to Indian culture and soft power. The global community looks to us for solutions to international problems – whether terrorism, money laundering or climate change. In a globalised world, our responsibilities are also global.
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Inflation is taxation and taxation is theft that takes more money out of hard-working Americans’ pocket books.
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.
Man, I did love this game. I’d have played for food money… I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels… brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I’d play for nothing!
Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.
I made enough money to buy a house. That’s crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive… is money.
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough?
Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?
Money will make you more of what you already are. If you’re not a nice person, money’s going to make you a despicable individual. If you’re a good person, money’s going to make you a better person.
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.
Only sick music makes money today.
Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.
I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it’s the managers that make the money and last the longest.
There has never been just ‘coach class’ health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It’s one thing to say you get perks; it’s another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.
