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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score.
The real excitement is playing the game.
-- Donald Trump
Beware
of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
--Benjamin Franklin
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
- Pablo Picasso
"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."
-- P.T. Barnum
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
-Sir Thomas Browne
Reassurance is good. Cash is better."
--AHMAD FAWZI, of the United Nations, on American support for Afghanistan.
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."
-- Horace
"Money often costs too much."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic
about.
--Charles Kingsley
"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more
you've got."
--Andrew Young
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.
Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
-- Harold Green
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power
and influence.
-Henry Chester
"Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is
the most chilling and havoc wreaking."
-GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The
only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of
knowledge, experience, and ability."
--Henry Ford
"Rise early, work hard, strike oil."
-- J. Paul Getty
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million
dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
--Hobart Brown
"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."
-Charles H. Kettering
The habit of looking on the bright side of every event
is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
~Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)~
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating,"
-- Oscar Wilde
"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are
infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you." - Oscar Wilde,
writer (1854-1900).
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
- Geoffrey Chaucer, author (1854-1900)
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that
money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Francois de Visscher, a Greenwich, Conn. based financial consultant
and investment banker said, "If you are a $100 million company, a $500
million, or a $1 billion company, you're not a small business anymore.''
Thank you for that Francois, at least I know I'm still a small business.
"Time
is the most important currency, but once you spend it, it's gone."
--Rod Steiger
"Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it
is often easy to get more."
--Charles Dickens
"History is
always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up."
- Anonymous
"When I have nothing to do at night and can't think, I always iron my
money."
- Robert Mitchum in "His Kind of Woman."
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
- Robert Jackson, United States Supreme Court Justice (1892-1954).
The darkest hour of a man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get
money without earning it.
-- Horace Greeley
"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence
is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
--Abraham Lincoln
"As long as
people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense
it."
- Dick Cavett
"Money is what
fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the
fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure
divided by those who have information and those who must function out
of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from
land, but from knowledge."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"That's the
American way. If little kids don't aspire to make money like I did,
what the hell good is this country?"
-- Lee Iacocca
If a man runs
after money, he's money-mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he
spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a ne'er-do-well;
if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without
working for it, he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a lifetime
of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.
-- Vic Oliver (1898-1964)
"If a man empties
his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment
of knowledge always pays the best interest."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The secret
point of money and power in America is neither the things that money
can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom,
mobility, privacy. "
--Joan Didion
"Waste neither
time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and
frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"In spite of
the cost of living, it's still popular." --
Kathleen Norris
If all the
nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?
-- Steven Wright
"The budget
should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled and the public debt
should be reduced. The arrogance of public officialdom should be tempered
and controlled. And the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed,
lest we become bankrupt."
-- Cicero, 63 B.C.
A feast is
made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer
for everything.
--Ecclesiastes 10:19
More Biblical Quotes on Money
Money is the
ItsaMoneyThingENT to me. Money is my MOOD.
Andy Warhol, From A to B and Back Again, 1975
Money is a
scale by which wealth is estimated, and though it is not wealth, more
than a barometer is weather, yet it is our only mode of computing it,
and nothing, perhaps, is more natural than that the shadow should sometimes
have been over-valued, or even taken for the substance.
-- Thomas Joplin, Outline of a System of Political Economy, 1823
Give money
me; take friendship whoso list!
For friends are gone, come once adversity;
When money yet remaineth safe in chest,
That quickly can thee bring from misery.
Fair face show friends, when riches do abound;
Come time of proof, farewell, they must away!
Believe me well, they are not to be found
If God but send thee once a louring day.
Gold never starts aside; but, in distress,
Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness.
Barnabe Goodge,
Eclogues, Epitaphs and Sonnets, 1563
"The shortest
and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that
it is in their interests to promote yours."
-- Jean de
La Bruyère
Wealth consciousness
suggests a complete absence of money worries; an awareness that there
is always plenty of money to go around. People who live with true abundance
never worry about having enough -- they know that creating wealth and
affluence is a function of their own mind-set. Worry keeps us from feeling
free and joyful. We are never truly free until we break the chains of
fear. But once we do, our lives will never be the same. A life without
worry is a life of abundance, a life will lived.
-- Richard
Carlson, Ph.D. "Don't Worry, Make Money" 1961
I asked millionaires
about their high school and college experience. Did all of them graduate
in the top 1 percent of their college classes? Hardly. About 2 percent
of the millionaires surveyed indicated being in the top 1 percent. It
isn't usually the very top graduates who become econom- ically successful,
but it isn't those who graduate at ground zero either.
Millionaires
also report that they were not A students in college. In fact, only
about three in ten reported receiving a greater percentage of A's than
either B's C's D's or F's. About 90 percent graduated from college.
Overall, their GPA was 2.9 -- good but not outstanding
-- Thomas J
Stanley, Ph.D. "The Millionaire Mind"
So Mister Moneybags,
you're loaded? So?
You'll never take it with you when you go.
You've made
your pile, but squandered time. Grown Old
you can't gloat over age like hoarded gold.
-- Tony Harrison,
Palladas: Poems, 1975
If they took
people at the pawn shop I wonder how much I would get for myself. Debtors'
prisons are really pawn shops in which money is lent not so much on
goods as on the possessors of them.
-- Georg Christof
Lichtenberg, Notebook J 1789-93 tr. R.J. Hollingdale, 1990
"A man
is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."
-- Henry David
Thoreau
"What's
money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed
at night and in between does what he wants to do."
-- Bob Dylan
"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"
Julian Huxley,
Essays of a Biologist, 1923
"To lay with
one hand the power of government on the property of the citizen, and
with the other to bestow it on favored individuals . . . is none the
less robbery because it is . . . called taxation".
US Supreme
Court, Loan Association v. Topeka (1874)
But remember
the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce
wealth - Deuteronomy 8:18
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