Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jusuf Kalla

If Exxon explores more, there are taxes and money for the government,

Charles Nelson Reilly

If I make $30,000 a month, I'll spend $29,999. I tell friends, 'Oh, you need money to go to college?' I'm a little crazy, but the backwash is heaven.

Maggie Cheung

I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

I can say that a lot more of the money is going into low-fi production.

I can save some people money that they don't realize.

I couldn't think of a worse place for this to happen, ... It just can't go on. If we have to throw money at it, then we will.

I don't think that someone who is not working should receive any money.

Nina Simone

I am particular about the seating of the audience-also about how much money they pay-but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

I am only making money as a landlord, not through selling petrol.

I don't want to spend a lot of money on something that may not work. If it does work, we can put something more permanent in.

I don't want to waste the taxpayers' money in Louisiana,

I don't want to be on a team of all superstars. I just want to be on a team that can win. Money isn't everything. I want to be a champion.

He's not paying me, and I'm not making much money representing him.

How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.

I don't like to be too critical, but he took money from nursing homes,

Jim Thorpe

I don't like it when people try to take advantage. Now I'm only going to spend money on my wife and daughter.

Matt Holliday

I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.

I don't like to work and make money. I like to volunteer; it's more rewarding.

I do anything for money now a days.

I do not get money from him, but I would not refuse such money, ... only $10,000 and 5,500 euros from foreigners.

John Gutfreund

I am more rich in goods than I am in money.

Hunter S. Thompson

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

Hume Cronyn

I'm going to teach you to HATE spending money.