Best 5043 quotes in «money quotes» category

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

It is no secret that those of us in the Northwest believe the Administration's proposal to drive up the cost of electricity in our region is not only misguided, but also will not achieve the intended goal of raising money for the treasury.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

It is very similar to companies like Google and other internet companies. When you go and search on Google you don't pay for that. But sometimes you click on an advert and Google makes money on that.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

I truly love the game; I wouldn't be playing if I didn't love the game. I'm not getting paid astronomical dollars; it's truly for the love of the game of basketball.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

It's all about the money.