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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do.

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

When a man loves a woman, periodically he needs to pull away before he can get closer.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea.

When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

When love and adventure are finished, it's nice to have getting and spending to fall back on.

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death

When you don't have any money, any things, any house - if you are unattached, what is the difficulty in it? But when you have everything and you remain unattached - a beggar in the palace - then something very deep has been attained.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do both.

When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Whether one has wealth or not, no treasure exceeds the one called life.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

While there may have once been a stigma to making money, high-earning women actually have an advantage in the dating-and-marriage market.

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.