Quotes About Money

the inside of the shell, the swirls of blue and purple—wampum, what used to be traded like money.

I want my money back!

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Yeah, but no one uses half-dollars," I pointed out. "Except great-grandpas, and then they have caramels stuck to them." -Alice

Well, because if we don't have enough capacity, we're cheating ourselves out of potential throughput. And if we have more than enough capacity, we're wasting money. We're missing an opportunity to reduce operational expense.

The goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money," I say to him. "And everything else we do is a means to achieve the goal.

Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell." I

Operational expense," he says. "Operational expense is all the money the system spends in order to turn inventory into throughput.

the goal is to make money, then (putting it in terms Jonah might have used), an action that moves us toward making money is productive. And an action that takes away from making money is non-productive.

Interesting, isn't it, that each one of those definitions contains the word money," he says. "Throughput is the money coming in. Inventory is the money currently inside the system. And operational expense is the money we have to pay out to make throughput happen. One measurement for the incoming money, one for the money still stuck inside, and one for the money going out.

But how do we know the value of our finished goods?" she asks. "First of all, the market determines the value of the product," says Lou. "And in order for the corporation to make money, the value of the product—and the price we're charging—has to be greater than the combination of the investment in inventory and the total operational expense per unit of what we sell.

Any money we've lost is operational expense; any investment that we can sell is inventory.

The goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money," I say to him. "And everything else we do is a means to achieve the goal." But Jonah doesn't laugh at me. "Very good, Alex. Very good," he says quietly.

Throughput," he says, "is the rate at which the system generates money through sales.

Inventory is all the money that the system has invested in purchasing things which it intends to sell.

Throughput is the money coming in. Inventory is the money currently inside the system. And operational expense is the money we have to pay out to make throughput happen. One measurement for the incoming money, one for the money still stuck inside, and one for the money going out.

With great difficulty we hunted the dog-banditti into their caves of the city, and bribed them into giving back their victim. Money was the least thing to think of in such case; I would have given a thousand pounds if I had had them in my hand. The audacity of the wretched men was marvellous. They said that they had been 'about stealing Flush these two years,' and warned us plainly to take care of him for the future.

Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.

Love came in so many forms. We love for weakness or strength, she thought, for security or wildness, for money, or beauty, or sometimes for sadness. Whatever reason, the brain turned giddy with self-worth, and self-worth became indelibly linked to the one who was loved.

Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.

Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.

The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially.

Fear made people greedy and therefore selfish; that small minority who honestly did not care for themselves in that way, who could sincerely say that money was unimportant to them, almost always had no dependants.