Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalia Ginzburg

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Kato Kaelin

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

Ida Tarbell

Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

Gloria Steinem

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

J. P. Morgan

If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.

J. P. Morgan

You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.

J. Paul Getty

People who don't respect money don't have any.

J. Paul Getty

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

J. Paul Getty

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

J. Paul Getty

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

J. Paul Getty

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

J. Paul Getty

You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.

H. G. Wells

Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

H. L. Mencken

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.

George Herbert

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

Gene Fowler

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

Gertrude Stein

It is very funny about money. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. All animals have the same emotions and the same ways as men. Anybody who has lots of animals around knows that. But the thing no animal can do is count, and the thing no animal can know is money.

Gertrude Stein

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...

Gertrude Stein

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...

Gertrude Stein

When you earn it and spend it you do know the difference between three dollars and a million dollars, but when you say it and vote it, it all sounds the same.

Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

Francis Quarles

Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

Horace Walpole

The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Horace

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Horace

Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

Horace

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Horace

Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]

Horace

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]

Horace

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]