Money Quotes - Page 61

Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

I love America, but I can't spend the whole year here. I can't afford the taxes.

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Money: power at its most liquid.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

I am proof that you can you make money in Italy and be honest.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

Money does not guarantee success.

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.