Money Quotes - Page 23

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

The single biggest difference between financial success and financial failure is how well you manage your money. It's simple: to master money, you must manage money.

Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

Schools teach you how to work for money, but don't teach how to make money work for you

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

Money can't buy poverty.

Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.