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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 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 popular is the most important thing in the world!

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.

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.

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

Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward to seeing humanity free someday of the tryanny of Christianity no less than Capitalism.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

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

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.

Both poverty and wealth are excellent things, because they are extremes, but the middle ground is damaging to the soul.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

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

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

Broke is a temporary condition, poor is a state of mind.

Bump in my hoopty hoopty hoop. I own that. And I aint payin my rent this month. I owe that.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Business is other people's money.

But few prize honour more than money.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

But I'm alone on my throne All these riches

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

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.

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

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

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Carpe per diem - seize the check.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Debt is normal. Be weird.

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.