Money Quotes - Page 76

And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

Like having your own licence to print money.

What's happening is there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of the monetary system that we have. When you inflate a currency or destroy a currency, the middle class gets wiped out, so the people who get to use the money first, which is created by the Federal Reserve System, benefit, so the money gravitates to the banks and to Wall Street. That's why you have more billionaires than ever before.

I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with.

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose, and in the end, we get it all.

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

It's never been about making money.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.