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Quotes About Cash

When bills come due, only cash is legal tender. Don't leave home without it.
~ Warren Buffett
The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.
~ Jack Welch
All entrepreneurs get strapped for cash. Private equity and other sources of funding will buy into the company. But many don't buy into the dream and end up driving the entrepreneur away. "We don't want to let that entrepreneurial dream disappear when they become part of our twenty-billion-dollar business," Long says.
~ Jason Jennings
This nervous action, which he sometimes performed every few minutes, was like a man crossing himself before an alter- the Drugs; the Cash; and the Holy Ghost of Credit.
~ Edward St Aubyn
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
~ Aldous Huxley
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
~ Richard Lugar
If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
~ George Packer
Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.
~ Bill Keller
Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.
~ Bill Janklow
If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.
~ Debra Messing
I'd got into Cash after I'd used my pocket money to buy his 'Live at San Quentin' album, just because I liked the cover. It turned out I liked the record inside even more.
~ Frank Skinner
I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.
~ Muhtar Kent
There are five main barriers to women entering politics - I like to think of them as the five Cs: cash, caring, culture, confidence, and the closed club.
~ Jo Swinson
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
~ James Chiles
Mercenaries, to me, were always able to switch sides because they're motivated by cash. Deadpool has always been a shifty bastard.
~ Rob Liefeld
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
~ Ruth Porat
Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.
~ Richard Branson
Wealth, too, is often separated into various mental accounts. At the bottom of this hierarchy sits the money that is easiest to spend: cash.
~ Richard H Thaler
Ingenious, really: you pour junk-raised cash into a hostile takeover and sell the debt to your savings and loan, which the public ultimately must bail out. Then you mortgage the company to the hilt to pay off the funny money, loot the pension fund, run through the reserves, sell off everything of value, and dispose of the remaining bankrupt husk for whatever you can get. Magic! Loot that pays you extra to plunder it.
~ Richard Powers
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
~ Joichi Ito
I'd want to have the power of mind control. If I had that one skill you'd always see at the bank loading up bags full of cash.
~ Ryan Hall
If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!
~ Stephen Richards
As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government is behind the project. . . . Westerners couldn't buy a more perfect evil if they rode straight to hell with a saddlebag full of cash." Or, as one stockman said in 1989, "It's not so much the wolves we're afraid of, it's the wolf managers.
~ William R. Lowry