Quotes About Money

It's more useful to have knowledge about cuts of meat than a lot of money.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.

Vision, not need, is what attracts money.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

We learned early on that if we help enough people, the money will come.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.

Illegal' takes on a whole new meaning when you're loaded like Barnes. The rich have a separate rule book. To them if it makes money, it can't be wrong.

ON A COLD CALL: Be brief. You must generate interest in about 30 seconds or less, or forget it. Make a strong statement about how you can help the prospect. Don't focus on how much money you can save them. That approach seems to be wearing thin. Talk about what you do for companies like hers, or how your product has worked for others.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. —Henry Ford, innovating automaker

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1 000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19 000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

For bankers, lawyers, accountants, brokers and company formation agents looking to score big, the only thing standing in their way has been "Know your customer" (KYC), the lame excuse for a sure fire way to disrupt the business of making money by moving money.

As The Guardian put it, Sekulow came up with a plan, at the height of the recession, that pushed "poor and jobless people to donate money to his Christian nonprofit, which since 2000 has steered more than $60 million to Sekulow, his family and their businesses." The money has gone to companies controlled by his wife, sons, brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew.

After that time, he was not in the real estate business as much as the Donald Trump business. He licensed his name to an enormous number of products—including clothing, wine, water, jewelry, steak, vodka, and a university (of sorts)—though none lasted very long or made much or any money for his partners.

The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.

Democracy is for those who can buy it.

We were a minor trend waiting to happen. In 1980 when we were approached by several tables about signing, we said, 'Well, money isn't that important, but we want our artistic control.' And their replay was, 'Of course you can have artistic control, as long as you change your name.' So much for artistic control!

So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all. So the people that give their money over for these things might not be the only ones who aren't getting what they're supposed to out of it. They should think twice before picking one of them up.

Stewardship is like that. I won't answer for the way another Christian mismanaged money. I won't be charged with another person's irresponsible consumption. Nor will I get credit for how another faith community shared or sacrificed luxuries for the marginalized. I'll answer for my choices.