Money Quotes - Page 31

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

The fundamental glue that holds any relationship together is trust.

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Most people struggle financially because they take advice from sales people, not rich people.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States....The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.