Money Quotes - Page 52

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

If you're good at something, never do it for free.

Anything that just costs money is cheap.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

It's all about the money.

owning capital is not a productive activity.

I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Those who spend too fast never grow rich.

I was a little different. I still say Im a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

Don't just make money, make a difference.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Only sick music makes money today.