Quotes About Money

He exercised a supervisory role and knew all about the money funneled to politicians.

No, I am not," Grant shot back, "but 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.

He held $32.3 million in Morgan capital, which was the bank's major cushion.

I made up my mind that, if I could manage it, some day I would give away crisp bills, too.

He saw that money could bring majesty in the moral as well as secular sphere, which excited him more than fancy estates or clothes.

He made a practice of never carrying less than $1,000, and he kept it in his pocket.

Even the now-immense authority of Pierpont Morgan couldn't solve the structural problems caused by too many railroads chasing too few passengers and owing too much money.

Financial partnerships are combustible affairs that frequently blow up as a result of personality clashes and disputes over money.

The church would have been devastated without the Rockefeller money and torn apart by the scandal.

Rockefeller never lost his ingrained sense of thrift.

begged the larger question of whether people should accept money gained by what they deemed unscrupulous means.

proper handling of government debt would permit America to borrow at affordable interest rates and would also act as a tonic to the economy. Used as loan collateral, government bonds could function as money—and it was the scarcity of money, Hamilton observed, that had crippled the economy and resulted in severe deflation in the value of land. America was a young country rich in opportunity. It lacked only liquid capital, and government debt could supply that gaping deficiency.

Despite the chronic friction between them, Big Bill continued to borrow money from his son and by the end of the century still had a $64,000 loan outstanding—more than $1 million in today's money.

For such a perfectionist, giving money away was fraught with far more nervous tension than making it.

He valued money too highly to dispense it lightly and wanted to investigate all requests before acting upon them.

he was frustrated that he couldn't give money away quickly enough to keep pace with his mounting income.

If he showed generosity toward Frank, it deepened his brother's dependence and bred anger; if he didn't give him money, Frank threw a tantrum.

It would be equivalent to $500 million today.)

Congress could, at any time, limit how the foundation money was spent.

John loaned Frank the money to purchase the other half, keeping the mining stock as collateral.

On July 6, while Captain Hamilton wandered about trying to find a purse with money that he had lost—he sometimes had a touch of the absentminded genius—the local press announced independence.

Washington frowned upon these Puritan descendants as greedy, sanctimonious hypocrites, telling Joseph Reed that "there is no nation under the sun (that I ever came across) pay greater adoration to money than they do.

Rockefeller desperately needed intelligent assistance in donating his money at a time when he could not draw on a profession of philanthropic experts.

That he would give $100,000 one minute to charity and turn around and haggle over the price of a ton of coal.