Money Quotes - Page 71

I went to America in the winter of 1872-73, authorised to secure, if I could, the passage of a bill demonetising silver. It was in the interest of those I represented - the governors of the Bank of England - to have it done. By 1873, gold coins were the only form of coin money.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice.

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Business is other people's money.

Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

If you took our top fifteen decisions out, we'd have a pretty average record. It wasn't hyperactivity, but a hell of a lot of patience. You stuck to your principles and when opportunities came along, you pounced on them with vigor.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

The only thing I want from my money is to die in comfort.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.