Money Quotes - Page 94

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Money is not everything, but it is better than having one's health.

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

We could live like counts. ... If all that money is out there, I might as well hack a little on the side and put the novel off.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

The best money I made was panhandling.

The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent..to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.

Money is a living entity, and it responds to energy exactly the same way you do. It is drawn to those who welcome it, those who respect it. Wouldn't you rather be with people who respect you and who don't want you to be something you're not? Your money feels the same way.

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome.

I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.