Money - Quotes
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we`re too poor to buy our freedom.
Beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. [...] Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Money is like manure; it`s not worth a thing unless it`s spread around encouraging young things to grow.
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don`t need it.
The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.