Money Quotes - Page 80

We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

I used to think that if I made $50,000 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

The only way of making money is for effort. The only time I've ever lost money is when I've purposely said, "I'm doing this to make money." And I've actually on three occasions lost significant sums. I have made wealth when I've actually made a contribution to something, when I've done something I thought I could do better than somebody else or have done something better than somebody else does it.

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

It is money makes the mare to trot.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

Diversify your investments.

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.