Money Quotes - Page 46

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.

To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

In most betting shops you will see three windows marked 'Bet Here', but only one window with the legend 'Pay Out'.

Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.

Go have fun and make money

In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at higher prices.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

The rich are different from us.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Money Talks. Chocolate Sings.

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.