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Money Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate,…
- Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.
- You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
- What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers…
- Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for…
- Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away,…
- We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up…
More Money Quotes
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur
- There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. — Jane Austen
- Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. — Jane Austen