Money Quotes - Page 95

You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.

If you're a generous person, when you get money and fame, you're going to be more generous. If you're a sharer, you're going to be more sharing. If you're a coward, you're just going to be a bigger coward. That's all money and fame does.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

I was struck by the absence, even among very young boys and girls, of any interior motivation; they were incapable of thinking, of inventing, of imagining, of choosing, of deciding for themselves; this incapacity was expressed by their conformism; in every domain of life they employed only the abstract measure of money, because they were unable to trust to their own judgment.

If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living.

Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

How much are you worth? I have no idea. How much do you want? Naw.I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Oh, my, yes. Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford? The future, Mr. Gittes! The future!

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.

You will never let yourself have more money than you think you deserve.

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Instead of spending money, I earned it.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.