Money Quotes - Page 11

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.

The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

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 drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power, more things, more gadgets. Tomorrow they will love - today there is no time. But tomorrow never comes, and one day they find themselves burdened with all kinds of gadgets, burdened with money. They have come to the top of the ladder - and there is nowhere to go except to jump in a lake.

I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

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.

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.

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 doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

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.'

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.

Money is either the best or the worst area of communication in our marriages.

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.