Money Quotes - Page 57

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

This bank-note world.

Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.

I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.

Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it's not just the rich kids that learn about money.. it's all of us.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

If you wan to steal money, don't rob a bank - open one.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.