Money Quotes · Page 681

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

— Frederick Soddy

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money.…

— Anonymous

If that doomsday scenario happens, will it help if you have heaps of paper money? I don't think so.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

“Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the…

— Stephen Richards

“The dead hand of society’s inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern…

— Peter F. Hamilton

The tax rate of 35 percent is impossible to provide an incentive to the large corporations, that have $1.7 trillion offshore, to…

— Frederick W. Smith

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

— Franz Grillparzer

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money.…

— Steven Wright

“It was in fact during the month of May 1889 that Carnegie was finishing up a magazine article to become known as…

— David McCullough

Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing'…

— John Tillotson

“His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although—like himself— a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. The first thing…

— Mark Twain

'Faces' became more than a film. It became a way of life, a film against the authorities and the powers that prevent…

— John Cassavetes

As bank customers, we tend to believe that we can have both perfect security for our money, drawing on it whenever we…

— Ron Paul

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way…

— Philip Slater

“there wasn't a stove and we put cans of beans in hot water in the sink to heat them up and we…

— Charles Bukowski

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard…

— Artie Lange

“Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.”

— Napoleon Hill

“one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of…

— Anonymous

With Jerry Bruckheimer, you know you'll get your money's worth. You're getting huge action sequences, it's going to be funny, and you…

— Jerry O'Connell

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

— Seth Godin

When I moved down here I wasn't making much money, so my brother-in-law suggested I do some iron work.

— Bolivar Ceveno

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who…

— Suman Rai

“It’s more than money now, Candice. It’s a memory maker…Hold this penny tight, close your eyes, and no matter where you are…

— Brett Williams

“If I see a homeless person begging for change, I might give them money, if they’ve got change for a nickel.”

— Jarod Kintz

Life is grand when there's money in your hand and a man by your side that's down witcha plan, But I'm in-dependent,…

— MC Lyte

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off…

— Tupac Shakur

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to…

— Alan Watts

“ 'Sex drives us, love or no love. Power or no power. Money or no money. It's the most powerful drug in…

— Vicki Pettersson

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.

— Ayn Rand

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

— Iggy Pop

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

— O. Henry

It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd…

— Freddie Mercury

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the…

— Robert Kiyosaki

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a…

— Henry Ford

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each…

— Julia Alvarez

If he got money, then I'm coming, if he got a job then ima be ballin, if he treat a girl right,…

— Anonymous

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

— Democritus

Yeah my son is rich, but youre a self b*tch, ooh you make me itch. You dont respect me, Im his mommy

— Mama Jones

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch…

— George Gissing

“...The reason why we’re strippers, is invariably more boring, more grounded in nonexistential needs like money—and pragmatic concerns, like money.”

— Ruth Fowler