Money Quotes - Page 91

What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

Making money is easy. It is. The difficult thing in life is not making it, it's keeping it.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

Just as a man is fulfilled through working out the intricate details of solving a problem, a woman is fulfilled through talking about the details of her problems.

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street

If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong.

If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

It seems like only yesterday that savers were dorks. They kept piggy banks. They drove last year's cars. They fished in their change purses for nickels while the superstars flashed credit cards. Today, values have changed. The new object of veneration is not money on the hoof but money in the bank - and the dorks all have it.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers . . . and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

You want to be greedy when others are fearful.

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.