Best 5043 quotes in «money quotes» category

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

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.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if they can-economic growth and employment through the dubious means of suppressing interest rates and printing money. The nice thing about gold is that you can't print it.

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

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.

Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

Debt is dumb. Cash is king.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by virtue of their dominance of the private society, while the population observes quietly. So understood, democracy is a system of elite decision and public ratification, as in the United States itself. Correspondingly, popular involvement in the formation of public policy is considered a serious threat. It is not a step towards democracy; rather it constitutes a 'crisis of democracy' that must be overcome.

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce.

Diversify your investments.

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Doing things you're passionate about, with an intention of helping others, will make you an all around richer person.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Don't be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

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

Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.