Money Quotes - Page 47

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.

Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Remember that credit is money.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.

There is no accountability in soft money. None.

Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.

The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith, and the depth of their gratitude.

Right after the Civil War there was considerable talk about reviving Lincoln's brief experiment with the Constitutional monetary system. Had not the European money-trust intervened, it would have no doubt become an established institution.

The idea that money brings power and independence is an illusion. What money usually brings is the need for more money - and there is a shabby and pathetic powerlessness that comes with that need. The inability to risk new lives, new work, new styles of thought and experience, is more often than not tied to the bourgeois fear of reducing one's material standard of living. That is, indeed, to be owned by possessions, to be governed by a sense of property rather than by a sense of self.

By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.