Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry Miller

To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money. and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money?

George Eliot

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

George Eliot

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Fred Allen

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Frank Borman

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

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

To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.

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

Health without money is halfe an ague.

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.

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.

He said there was money out on my head.

He said that I needed to get that money for him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

Franklin P. Adams

Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

Franz Grillparzer

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.