Money Quotes - Page 53

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

A fool and his money are soon married.

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

I never lost money by turning a profit.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.