Quotes About Money

An annuity is a very serious business; it comes over and over every year, and there is no getting rid of it.

First ponder then dare. Know your facts. Count the cost. Money is not the important thing. What you are building is not a medical school. It is the Kingdom of God. Don't err on the side of being too small. If this is the will of God that we should find some way to keep the college open. It has to be done.

You're middle-aged, Daddy. What are you going to do with the second half of your life? Because, I'm telling you now, if you run through all of your money before you're eighty, don't come looking to me for a handout 'cuz I'll just put you in an old folks' home and go party.

and the lawyers, as usual, got the money, far, far more than anyone else did.

I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That's life. That's love. That's fiscally irresponsible.

With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it's no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell.

Without profit, something is always on fire. When companies talk about burn rates, two things are burning: money and people. One you're burning up, one you're burning out.

We've rejected the per-seat business model from day one. It's not because we don't like money, but because we like our freedom more! The problem with per-seat pricing is that it makes your biggest customers your best customers. With money comes influence, if not outright power.

business battles serve as financial-page porn.

In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, fancy office space, lavish furniture, and other frivolities instead of what really matters. And what really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.

A few bucks isn't going to make up for selling food we can't be proud of.

We're not very good when we're spending other people's money.

The lesson is clear: Having too much money or too many resources can actually get in the way of successful reinvention.

When companies haphazardly throw money at what they perceive their problems, challenges, and opportunities to be, the real answers that could solve the real problems or allow them to embrace radical change and take advantage of the real opportunities are seldom found.

I never got caught because of money. I got caught because of love.

No hay que prestar más dinero del que uno estaría dispuesto a regalarle a quien le asesta el sablazo.

But all this is pure conjecture and hypothesis, yet there are times when the lives of others, of another (the configuration of a life, its continuation, not a few mere steps), do depend on our decisions and vacillations, on our cowardice or daring, on our words and on our hands, and sometimes on the fact that we have money and they do not.

It is the law of wealth that such people only profit from the money that is taken from them.

How I admired the life of taking pains, of living in defiance of a government that did not like you and did not want you and wanted to destroy you so that you had to build out protections for yourself with money and men, deploying armament, buying alliances, patrolling borders, as in a state of secession, by your will and wit and warrior spirit living smack in the eye of the monster, his very eye. But

Jamie: The only kind of deal that I can make is with money, and we haven't got any of that. Mrs. Frankweiler: You are very poor indeed if that is the only kind of deal you can make

It had become evident to Tarzan that without money one must die. D'Arnot had told him not to worry, since he had more than enough for both, but the ape-man was learning many things and one of them was that people looked down upon one who accepted money from another without giving something of equal value in exchange

He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power. Then he'll be hung, said the Chief, rising. I doubt it, said the other, people with lots of money seldom get hung. You only get hung for wanting money.

The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it. You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.