Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Krugman

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Patrick Dempsey

Didn't you take economics? You could have had me for $49.95.

Ovid

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Paul McCartney

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

Henry Ward Beecher

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

Henry Ward Beecher

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Henry Kravis

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

Henry James

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Henry Fielding

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Johann Sebastian Bach

My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly...

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.

Gustave Flaubert

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost all her original forms, where will that leave the plastic arts? And so on. In the mean time, things are going to get very murky.

John Maynard Keynes

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

John Maynard Keynes

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

John Maynard Keynes

If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.

Phyllis George

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

Josiah Stamp

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.