Money Quotes - Page 58

He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world, not merely for one's self but for others. But he is an unmitigated fool who imagines for a moment that it is more important to make the money than to make it honestly. One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one's independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent.

How pleasant it is to have money.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.

Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Best way to rob a bank is to own one.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines, the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction. It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It takes in the world's goods and converts them into garbage, sewage, and noxious fumes-for none of which have we found a use.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

I've seen more people fail because of liquor and leverage -- leverage being borrowed money. You really don't need leverage in this world much. If you're smart, you're going to make a lot of money without borrowing.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.