Quotes About Money

Eight dollars a week or a million a year—what is the difference? A mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer.

That sounds self-indulgent and gratifying without vulgar ostentation," says I; "and I don't see how money could be better invested. Give me a cuckoo clock and a Sep Winner's Self-Instructor for the Banjo, and I'll join you.

La società moderna è ben lontana dal costituire un esempio: molte delle sue manifestazioni - la pubblicità, il culto del denaro, le disuguaglianze abissali, l'egoismo feroce, l'uniformità dei gusti, delle opinioni, delle coscienze - sono un concentrato di orrori e idiozie.

He expressed by his action his indifference to money but he was not, Harriet now knew, indifferent to the lack of it.

As in many other cities, money no longer had any value in Istanbul. At the time I returned from the East, bakeries that once sold large one-hundred drachma loaves of bread for one silver coin now baked loaves half the size for the same price, and they no longer tasted the way they did during my childhood.

Ä°nsan hayatta deÄŸilken bile paran?n önemini biliyor.

Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.

Ne kadar hünerin ve yeteneÄŸin olursa olsun paray? ve iktidar? baÅŸka yerlerde ara ki, hüner ve emeÄŸinin kar??l???n? alamay?nca sanata küsmeyesin.

Gospodine službeni?e, pogledajte te ljude, rekla je i rukom kroz prozor pokazala na grad. Ono što ovih deset miliona ljudi u Istanbulu drži na okupu jeste novac za hleb, interes, ra?un, kamata, vi to znate bolje od mene. Ali postoji samo jedna stvar koja ?oveka drži na nogama u toj vrevi - a to je ljubav. Orhan Pamuk: ?udan ose?aj u meni

Ve?inu smo novca ulagali ili trošili na kupnju parcela i starih zgrada za budu?e gradnje u dijelovima grada koji ?e poskupjeti. Posebice kupuju?i prazna zemljišta izvan grada, osje?ao sam se poput sultana koji pokušava zaboraviti na bol zbog nemanja djece pripajaju?i nove države svome carstvu.

He had no faith in money, but he'd nervously squirrel it away. Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.

To avoid disappointment in art, one mustn't treat it as a career. Despite whatever great artistic sense and talent a man might possess, he ought to seek money and power elsewhere to avoid forsaking his art when he fails to receive proper compensation for his gifts and efforts.

It is not the possession of money that constitutes wealth, that gives the highest satisfaction, and awakens the consciousness of noble achievement, the assurance that one is fulfilling his mission, and that he is reading aright the sealed message which the Creator placed in his hand at birth.

Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let somebody, not yourself, take the responsibility ... Many a man has dwarfed his manhood, cramped his intellect, crushed his aspiration, blunted his finer sensibilities, in some mean, narrow occupation because there was money in it.

Time is money. We should not be stingy or mean with it, but we should not throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a dollar-bill. Waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation. It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back. Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.

He pulled out a single half-blackened disc of bronze. Money, he said. You get it by working, and then you trade it for things you want. But it's so small, said Runnel. So's your wit, said the man, and turned away.

Money and talent aren't the same thing." "That's because you can inherit money that was earned by your ancestors," said Sister Carlotta. "And everybody recognizes the value of money, while only select groups recognize the value of talent.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Time is a waste of money.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

Mike knows the market is crazy, but it will come back," Wynn continued. "But the people who run money panic, they want to get out, so they start selling everything—and Mike will make a bid. Then he sits there. And when it does come back, he makes out.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

If you knew there was somebody out there afoot that had two million dollars of your money, at what point would you quit lookin for em? That's right. There aint no such a point.