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Quotes About Money

Dans le royaume des aveugles les borgnes sont rois. Tous ces gens-là, voyez-vous, sont des médiocres, parce qu'ils ont l'esprit entre deux murs, – l'argent et la politique. – Ce sont des cuistres, mon cher, avec qui il est impossible de parler de rien, de rien de ce que nous aimons. Leur intelligence est à fond de vase, ou plutôt à fond de dépotoir, comme la Seine à Asnières.
~ Guy de Maupassant
If you make meaning, you'll probably also make money.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Utiliza métodos intrínsecos «Estoy harto de oír hablar de dinero, dinero, siempre dinero. Yo sólo quiero jugar, tomar Pepsi, llevar Reebok.» Shaquille O'Neal
~ Guy Kawasaki
and you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it. Thomas Guthrie
~ Guy Kawasaki
The devil is present in the mine, taking form in all the greed, the misunderstanding, the envy, and the betrayals among the men. He believes that the devil has come from the surface, attaching himself to those letters, the offers of money and fame, to pit them against one another.
~ Hector Tobar
He explained that when he had gotten to Toledo, he had a meeting with himself. He said he realized he had become satisfied with being a starting pitcher in the big leagues, and with the money he was making.
~ H. A. Dorfman
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before.
~ H. L. Mencken
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
~ H. L. Mencken
When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money.
~ H.L. Mencken
No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
~ H.L. Mencken
The best client is a scared millionaire.
~ H.L. Mencken
The intelligent man, when he pays taxes, certainly does not believe that he is making a prudent and productive investment of his money; on the contrary, he feels that he is being mulcted in an excessive amount for services that, in the main, are useless to him, and that, in substantial part, are downright inimical to him.
~ H.L. Mencken
It would surprise no impartial observer if the motto, In God we trust, were one day expunged from the coins of the republic by the Junkers at Washington, and the far more appropriate word, Verboten, substituted. Nor would it astound any save the most romantic if, at the same time, the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet.
~ H.L. Mencken
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. This is a Republic. The greatest in the history of the world. I want this country to continue as a Republic.
~ H.W. Brands
In Clay's time the federal government issued only metal money: gold and silver coins, called specie. Paper currency was the responsibility of banks, which promised to redeem their notes in specie.
~ H.W. Brands
Yet everyone knows that money is fundamentally an invention, a fiction.
~ Halldor Laxness
PAPA: This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home. NASSER: But that country has been sodomized by religion. It is beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere, it is a little heaven here.
~ Hanif Kureishi
The classification of the bourgeoisie as an owning class is only superficially correct, for a characteristic of this class has been that everybody could belong to it who conceived of life as a process of perpetually becoming wealthier, and considered money as something sacrosanct which under no circumstances should be a mere commodity for consumption.
~ Hannah Arendt
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~ Hans Christian Andersen
There are virtually no major life decisions you make that are not in some way based on your finances.
~ Harlan Coben
Family and money is never a good mix. Someone is always going to feel resentful.
~ Harlan Coben
I never hooked." "Good to know." "Though I made beaucoup bucks when I wore this working the pole.
~ Harlan Coben
Some people claim that money is the root of all evil. Could be. Others say that money can't buy you happiness. That may be true. But if you handle it right, money buys you freedom and time, and those are a lot more tangible than happiness
~ Harlan Coben
When the boys were gone, Adam walked down the path to the police cruiser. He wondered what the neighbors would think, but he really didn't give a crap. He tapped Len Gilman on the shoulder and said, "If this is about that stupid lacrosse money—" "It's not," Len said, his voice a door slamming shut. They
~ Harlan Coben