Money Quotes - Page 21

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

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.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

Investing is simple, but not easy.

Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

People who don't respect money don't have any.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

The real excitement is playing the game.

The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.