Money Quotes - Page 36

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Focus on all four of your net worth factors: increasing your income, increasing your savings, increasing your investment returns, and decreasing your cost of living by simplifying your lifestyle.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my control. When I started to make the money back, I vowed that it would never happen again. I bought things only when I could afford them. There was no big mortgage, no cars on hire purchase. I remember buying a TR6 sports car for £6,000, and funnily enough it gave me more pleasure than the Porsche ever had.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

I’m not producing movies to make money

Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn.

Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.