Quotes About Money

The underground economy. Our present complex tax code allows—even encourages—people to go "under the radar." How bad is this problem? Well, estimates are that the underground economy—those dealing in illegal or illicit behavior such as drugs or other off-the-books labor—amounts to between $1.5 trillion and $3 trillion per year.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. —Benjamin Franklin

I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there." There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.

new technologies compete with old ones—for time, for attention, for money, for prestige, but mostly for dominance of their world-view.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Give a hippie too much money and anything can happen.

businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Dir-se-ia que a avidez súbita, a ideia fixa do dinheiro o transformava, inclusive fisicamente.

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.

Many evils spring from power," he said. "Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and be believed by men, or else they won't. Yet if one thing were required to kill them certainly, it is that my words should be spread after my death by the power of money. No teaching could survive a campaign of paid advertising.

The beliefs in the potency of drugs to heal, diets to strengthen, moneys to secure, are the values or money changers that must be thrown

Thought is the coin of heaven. Money is its earthly symbol. Every moment must be invented, and our inner talking reveals whether we are spending or investing. Be more interested in what you are inwardly 'saying now' than what you have 'said' by choosing wisely what you think and what you feel now.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Only the elites despise earning money.

Health is a moral issue. It is about life and death first. Money comes second. Trump and the Republicans' vision for health care reform must be about more than repealing Obamacare. It must be about more than insurance. It must create a clear, positive path for twenty-first-century health and health care.

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess with me and I've been doing some research on that so.

If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like. Money amplifies our tendency to overreact, to swing from exuberance when things are going well to deep depression when they go wrong. Booms and busts are products, at root, of our emotional volatility.

money is a matter of belief, even faith: belief in the person paying us; belief in the person issuing the money he uses or the institution that honours his cheques or transfers. Money is not metal. It is trust inscribed. And it does not seem to matter much where it is inscribed: on silver, on clay, on paper, on a liquid crystal display.

Money, it is conventional to argue, is a medium of exchange, which has the advantage of eliminating inefficiencies of barter; a unit of account, which facilitates valuation and calculation; and a store of value, which allows economic transactions to be conducted over long periods as well as geographical distances. To perform all these functions optimally, money has to be available, affordable, durable, fungible, portable and reliable.

They had no children. They spent money on the house, and for five years it went through an elaborate series of new looks each one more ambitiously designed than the next, until to scratch the wall in the bathroom was to reveal a rainbow of pastel shades in which could be read my mother's hopeless biannual efforts to sustain her domestic dream.

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

A good accountant or financial adviser is a kind of artist. You can turn people's money into the most amazing creative possibilities, things they would never have dreamed of.

Broken state agencies such as the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) do not deserve more money to sink into programs that are unproven and ineffective.