Money Quotes - Page 14

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were fastened upon America, it is time to see precisely how the Fed, as presently constituted, carries out its systemic inflation and its control of the American monetary system.

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

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.

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

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.

I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

A lot of people would rather understand the market than make money

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.