Best 5043 quotes in «money quotes» category

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more blood in it; it is no more alive. Yes, Jews are very earth-bound. And what is wrong in having money? One should not be possessive; one should be able to use it. And Jews know how to use it! One should not be miserly. Money has to be created and money has to be used. Money is a beautiful invention, a great blessing, if rightly used. It makes many things possible. Money is a magical phenomenon.

Are you your clothes? Are you your name? Are you your profession? Stop identifying with them. They come and go

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves

At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is the Fed's power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to "print" or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or "checkbook money.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

A woman's sense of self is defined through her feelings and the quality of her relationships.

Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.