Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Horace Lorimer

When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.

George Herbert

Get to live; Then live, and use it; else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.

George Herbert

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

George Herbert

Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

George Herbert

Money wants no followers.

George Herbert

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

Christie Hefner

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

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.

One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.

Chris Tucker

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The rich are different from us.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her voice is full of money.

George Stigler

Henry Ford made a lot of money making cars at one time, but that was a small advantage to him compared to the benefit to millions of people who for the first time in their lives were emancipated from common public carriers and could live where they wanted, move at the hours they wanted, to the places they wanted. Ford collected a billion bucks, but that was peanuts compared to the benefits.

George Soros

The main difference between me and other people who have amassed this kind of money is that I am primarily interested in ideas, and I don't have much personal use for money.

George Soros

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong...I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

George Carlin

If you want to get rid of counterfeit money, put it in the collection plate at church.

George Carlin

Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

George Carlin

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Gene Ween

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Gene Ween

Now in a way, money is money, and if it's going to increase our audience, that's fine.

Frank Gehry

You have to build up a credibility before the support comes to you.

Fernando Pessoa

You breathe better when you're rich.

Fanny Burney

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Euripides

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Francis Bacon

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Francis Bacon

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Francis Bacon

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Francis Bacon

Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

Jean Seberg

Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Grover Norquist

We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

Groucho Marx

Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we oughta have? Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think. I think we should have a standing army. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.