Money Quotes - Page 64

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Let's say I am a chocoholic and I eat tons of chocolate a day. A hundred thousands of tons a day. I have this craving, but I can't afford it, so I get a printing press, and I start printing money, and I print billions and billions to buy chocolate. So I create this boom in the chocolate industry, so stores are running out of chocolate. So they have demand, so chocolate makers expand. Cocoa growers expand. You create this great boom. But now the feds arrest me and shut me down. And now there is a depression in the chocolate industry. That's what happens with the monetary policy.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It's like driving a car. It's simple if you know how to do it.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

Develop The Grit To be great.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.