Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey S. Firestone

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Harold Ramis

Where's the great pay? Where's the travel? Where's the Winnebago, Goddamnit!

James Brown

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

Shaun Alexander

By halftime, you're saying, shoot, (if I lose) I'm going to be owing money to be here. That's when it cranks up a little bit.

Jack Ma

But you've got to have patience to make money here.

Megan Mullally

Honey, I thought we talked about the beret. Even Patty Hearst couldn't pull one off, and she had money and a gun.

Annika Sorenstam

Honestly, I don't feel like I'm here to prove anything. I'm here to play golf. I know where I'm at on the money list. You know where I'm at. I'm here to reach my own goals, play my own game. I don't look at it that way. I see it as an opportunity for me.

Neale Donald Walsch

So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put in its place a new message: There's nothing in the universe that isn't God. And God, and the energy which is God, is found in everything, including money. It isn't like God is everywhere except in your billfold. In fact, God is everywhere.

Joseph Addison

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Joseph Addison

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Kevin Bacon

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Joe Louis

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves.

Joanne Harris

...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

John Cage

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

Samuel Butler

We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.

James Spader

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Norman Vincent Peale

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

Epictetus

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

All of the moneys expended by the Legislature are public. The people pay taxes, and the people have a right to know how that money is spent. It's very basic.

All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed.

Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

Hermione Gingold

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Hesiod

Money is life to us wretched mortals.

Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

Henry Ford

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it

Henry Ford

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Helen Rowland

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Henry Winkler

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.