MONEY QUOTES III
quotations about money
I read that yesterday, the Mexican peso hit its lowest point since March of 2009. In fact, things got so bad, it was seen leaving a bar with the American dollar.
JIMMY FALLON
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, September 23, 2011
Lost money is wept for with real tears.
JUVENAL
Satires
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
The Optimistic Life
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSEN
A Doll's House
Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.
DAVE RAMSEY
official website
A big part of not having money as a kid isn't that you haven't the stuff you want. It isn't being without heat, or the phone and electric company sending cut-off notices. It's lying in bed late at night worrying. You feel ashamed that your family is so radically different. Other families had stable lives and nice homes they could invite their friends to visit. Those things didn't happen in our family. So it was a little bit like embarrassment on top of embarrassment. But the worst is that, even more than food and shelter, you worried about your parents' anxiety, which was palpable in the house. It sounds crazy, but I'm grateful for all that now. It gave me a really good work ethic and sympathy for the majority of people who aren't rich. I feel in touch with their lives.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER
Sam Magazine, 2005
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god ... It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Money and Class in America
How many times have you heard someone say
If I had his money I'd do things my way
Hmm, but little they know
Hmm, it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.
BOB DYLAN
"A Satisfied Mind"
Money was made, not to command our will,
But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil.
Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey;
The horse doth with the horseman run away.
ABRAHAM COWLEY
Imitations, Tenth Epistle of Horace
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
Hints on Success in Life
Money talks. Mine is always saying "Spend me!"
TOM WILSON
Ziggy, November 6, 1999
How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.
DONALD TRUMP
How To Get Rich
Money is a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges.
KARL MARX
Das Kapital
Riches are for spending.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.
MARK TWAIN
letter to Orion Clemens, March 23, 1878
If money is, as it is often posited, the root of all evil, then where does that leave greed? Let's do the math: Greed takes up most of your time and most of your money, so therefore greed = time x money. And, as we all know, time = money. Ergo, greed = money x money. So, if money is the square root of all evil, then we are forced to conclude that greed is evil as well, perhaps even more so, in that it forced us to do math.
DALE E. BASYE & BOB DOB
Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck
Nothing in the world is as mobile as capital. It can move anywhere in the world instantaneously.
BARNEY FRANK
Q&A at National Press Club, July 29, 2009
The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this--they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Characteristics
Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought