Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Wallace

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

Henry A. Wallace

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Henry A. Wallace

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

Helen Gurley Brown

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Hedy Lamarr

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

Hedy Lamarr

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.

Henry David Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry Ford

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

Henry Ford

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Henry Ford

All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own.

Mandy Patinkin

There's not a lot of money in revenge.

John C. Maxwell

When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

John Adams

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

John Adams

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show, living in modest simplicity . . . is really the most respectable man in society, [and] makes himself and all about him most happy.

Judd Gregg

You used to be able to tell your kid, don't talk to strangers, don't take money from strangers.

This is money they would have never gotten.

This helps, but we obviously can't make significant money of revenue through increases.

This is all the money in the city, sitting right here,

Enid Bagnold

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

The 'flex' money is an unusual, one-time expenditure. As for the rest, some of it would be spent over several years.

The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending.

You don't have to spend $300 today. Do it over time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

George Farquhar

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

George Farquhar

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Gissing

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Jon Ronson

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

Lord Chesterfield

Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

Robin Wright

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.