Best 5043 quotes in «money quotes» category

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

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

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.

Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

Utilities used deregulation to effect a series of mergers limiting competition. In order to accelerate profits, cost cutting ensued, involving the layoff of thousands of utility company employees, including some who were responsible for maintenance of generation, transmission, and distribution systems. A number of investor-owned utilities stopped investing in the maintenance and repair of their own equipment, and, instead, cut costs to enhance the value of their stock rather than spending money to enhance the value of their service.

Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

VIP Rosé you can have a beer Cuz honey when you gettin money you don't have a care

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Wars are not paid for in wartime. The bill comes later.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Wealth is power. With wealth many things are possible.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity.

We are beginning to see practical support. And this is a very significant sign of the movement towards a new era, a new age.... We see both in our country and elsewhere... ghosts of the old thinking.... When we rid ourselves of their presence, we will be better able to move toward a new world order...relying on the relevent mechanisms of the United Nations.

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

We are talking about an awesome power. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they last. That is the very core of the Fed's power. Of course not everyone is instinctively against this illusion-weaving power, and many even welcome it. Tragically, the innocent who understand little about the complexity of the monetary system suffer the most, while those who are in the know reap great profit whether the market is going up or down.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

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.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.