Quotes About Money

Se John Kirwan Venton tinha esperanças de pôr as mãos na herança de Ann, foi frustrado pela prudência do sogro, que deixou dois sétimos de seu patrimônio para Ann, mas especificou que Venton estaria excluído do dinheiro, referindo-se a ele como pessoa "lamentável em sua conduta".

Are you going to let this money puff you up? Keep your eyes open. Don't lose your balance.

Has anyone given you the law of these offices? No? It is this: nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it.… As soon as you can, get some one whom you can rely on, train him in the work, sit down, cock up your heels, and think out some way for the Standard Oil to make some money.

Sharp drops in the money supply then led to severe recessions. The country needed an elastic currency and a permanent lender of last resort.

The certificate of deposit was more difficult to trace than a check and was the instrument of choice for political bribery.

So why did Senior procrastinate in giving him his money?

By the spring of 1891, Rockefeller began to develop the queasy sense that Harper regarded his money as a blank check to cover annual deficits.

Rockefeller was a forgiving lender and, by all accounts, lenient to a fault.

In a footnote, Lawson further conceded that Rockefeller never put a dime into the Amalgamated flotation.

in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out, and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.

Think of pouring out all that money on a whim.

It never occurred to the Rockefellers to trade up to a more socially prestigious denomination. "Most Americans when they accumulate money climb the golden spires of the nearest Episcopal Church," H. L. Mencken later observed.

Thanks to this staggering appreciation, Rockefeller's net worth reached a lifetime peak of $900 million in 1913—more than $13 billion in 1996 dollars.

he mostly hoarded his money in preparation for the next panic.

I feel, therefore, that large sums of money are, in a sense, safer there than in other fields.

Rockefeller now left Andrew Carnegie far behind and probably had at least twice as much money as Carnegie did.

What really disturbed him was not so much making money but spending it.

My change is five cents short," Rockefeller declared.

Each year, Rockefeller reluctantly gave another million dollars to bolster the permanent endowment to keep pace with his free-spending president

Such habits were not simply reflexive stinginess but were rooted in bedrock beliefs about the value of money.

Harper made an appeal for more money, despite the previous year's shortfall.

With such uncommon respect for the dollar, he couldn't cope with the psychological demands of the University of Chicago and other philanthropic commitments.

agonized over the judicious application of his money and found it harder to exercise scrutiny over charities than over business.

It also reflected a profound political logic. Hamilton knew that bondholders would feel a stake in preserving any government that owed them money. If the federal government, not the states, was owed the money, creditors would shift their main allegiance to the central government.