Quotes About Money

Her avarice had grown to be her one dominant passion; her love of money for the money's sake brooded in her heart, driving out by degrees every other natural affection.

Vincent Bailey, portfolio manager at BEA Associates, a New York money-management firm that managed $3 billion in Latin American funds, said that when Latin American derivatives are sold, "Mostly it's done for people who can't buy the actual securities

I couldn't understand how they had lost so much money. When you bought stock in one of these companies, what were you buying? A manufacturing company or a derivatives speculator? How could you tell the difference? In each case, the DPG salesmen vowed that they had not sold any of the exploding derivatives. In each case, rumors bounced throughout the firm, then died. It appeared that Morgan Stanley had dodged these bullets, too.

In the early 1920s, Lee Higginson was one of the most prestigious and profitable banks in the world – just behind J. P. Morgan but ahead of Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. The firm's roots were in Boston, not New York, yet even as America's financial business shifted from State Street to Wall Street during the early twentieth century, Lee Higginson remained one of a handful of global "money banks.

From the firm's perspective it was important to make as much money up front as possible on these trades. Take out a big fee, plant the time bomb, walk away, and wait. Of course, after the explosion the derivatives losers would sue, but as long as the firm had made enough money up front and could defend the lawsuit adequately, it would be fine. The important message I took from the disclaimers was this: The way you made money selling derivatives was by trying to blow up your clients.

But besides the pro-life cause—in which I sincerely believed—it was never about the money anyway. It was about self-righteousness, adrenaline, and power. Nevertheless, I was starting to get tired of the whole thing. Jim

United States Note." minted across the top where the words, "Federal Reserve Note," traditionally were printed. Over $4,000,000 worth of bills were placed into circulation between June 1963 and November 1963.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs and we know now that a government by organized money is just as bad as a government by organized mob.

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from a 1936 speech in New York City

Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.

An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.

His business might be defined as the lending of money exclusively to people who have no pressing need of it.

I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money.

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money, and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting, but never joining. In short, an outsider.

There are several ways of making quick money but in the general list, writing a novel rates well below robbing a bank.

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Ready money works great cures.

However, the same old problem remained: relinquishing a cheque to her fetid bank account. It was like a bog. A cheque would be sucked down until the surface closed over and it looked no different from before. However, asking her sister for a postal order was one thing. Asking Joe for cash again was another. It didn't make her feel cheap; it just made her feel poor. And that decimated her self-esteem.

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.