Money Quotes - Page 26

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

Money talks — but credit has an echo.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

I've never done work for money, ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?

Money is a lubricant. It lets you "slide" through life instead of having to "scrape" by. Money brings freedom-freedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life. Most of all, having money allows you not to have to spend your energy worrying about not having money.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

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

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.

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.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

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.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.