Quotes About Money

I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.

Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war.

First, have a definite, clear practical idea; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

But how, I wondered, did that work—putting care for the environment together with the Tea Party call to defund—if not abolish—the EPA, along with other agencies of government? Mike's answer was the free market. "Follow the money," he said. "Make it in the financial interest of everyone to do the right thing.

Companies made money and were beholden to stockholders; it was understandable if they tried to "cover their ass," people told me. But the government was paid to protect people, so one could expect much more of them.

a bigger one came true. As Hurricane Rita shredded homes, upended trees, and smashed houses, Heath got more work and earned more money.

Indeed the best thing about happiness itself," Lewis writes, "is that it liberates you from thinking about happiness—as the greatest pleasure that money can give us is to make it unnecessary to think about money . .

I get paid large sums of money to kill children.

All rights, all power, all ability, are suddenly expressed in terms of money. In order to be understood, everything has to be reduced to this common denominator. From this point of view, the whole previous history of capitalism seems no more than a mere prelude.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.

Build a house, and your investment returns value. Buy a couch, and the minute you take it out of the furniture store, it loses value. That's why I always say a house, you invest in; furniture, you spend money on.

you work, you make the money, and then you can afford this car; you train and then you win championships. There was no shortcut; you earned it.

Now that I was awakening to the realities of the economic struggle, I realized that I could no longer conscientiously deal with certain subjects in the way that editors wanted them handled. I had ideas for pictorial attacks on institutions hooked up with the money power, but there was no sale for these. The few papers which dared strike at the system were small, and had no money to pay for my product. And I had to live and support a family.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Neuroscientists tell us why.[13] Dopamine—the neurotransmitter of pleasure behind nearly all addictive behaviors—is excreted in response to thoughts about buying new things, winning money, acquiring more power or notoriety, or, for that matter, having new sex partners.

What workaholics truly crave isn't work per se; it is success. They kill themselves working for money, power, and prestige because these are forms of approval, applause, and compliments—which, like all addictive things, from cocaine to social media, stimulate the neurotransmitter dopamine.[8]

Certainly, the two things Scientology has on its side are money and lawyers, but those qualities won't save it if it can't find a way to bring new members into the fold.

If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.

Everybody wants to own quality, but quality takes time, and it takes money.