Quotes About Money

Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.

You still had to use the Balkanized, legacy banking system, which was built before the internet even existed, littered with middlemen and rent-seekers all along the way. And only if the central authorities of this network allowed it to happen, would your money move at a snail's pace from point A to point B.

Barney Frank wanted to know where the Fed was going to get the $85 billion to lend to AIG. I didn't think this was the time to explain the mechanics of creating bank reserves. I said, "We have $800 billion," referring to the pre-crisis size of the Fed's balance sheet. Barney looked stunned. He didn't see why the Fed should have that kind of money at its disposal.

The Treasury helped us solve this dilemma to some extent, by raising money in debt markets

With the money supply no longer constrained by the amount of gold held by the government, deflation stopped almost immediately.

Banks have spent hundreds of millions of dollars complying with the new rules and are not looking for a rollback.

they were growing reluctant to lend,

They condemned bailouts as giveaways of taxpayer money without considering the broader economic consequences of the collapse of systemically important firms.

Money is best left in the hands of government. The citizens of the United States are too stupid to save for the future.

If the wealthiest segment of the population has no money, who gives the poor their jobs? The government? There's a name for that economic philosophy—communism.

The government hiring workers would require paying money for doctors – and the left argues that doctors already make too much money. And the left won't argue openly for what they would prefer: forcing people to practice medicine for patients deemed worthy by the government

Spend time, talk it out before you get married. And figure it out. Make sure your really big issues you agree on. How you're going to raise your kids. If you're going to have kids. Your religion. All this kind of stuff. What do you think about money? Your morality? All these things. The big shit. Make sure you talk this stuff out, because this is the stuff that counts, not whether or not he picks up his clothes.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Laws cannot prevent extravagance; and this perhaps is not always an evil to the public. A shilling spent idly by a fool may be picked up by a wiser person, who knows better what to do with it; it is, therefore, not lost.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything.

Remember that time is money.

Remember that credit is money.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

He that is the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin