Money Quotes - Page 29

• We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

  Grover Norquist

  Father, Government, Worry

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• Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

  Robert Hunter

  Just One, Loses

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• Money has no country.

  Christina Stead

  Country

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.180, Open Road Media

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• [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

  Liza Mundy

  Family, Leadership, Education

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• The Madcap Heiress, isn't that what the papers usually call her? Millions of dollars and no sense.

  Vina Delmar

  Dollars, Paper, Heiress

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• Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

  Michelle Rhee

  Leadership, Education, Jobs

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• Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.

  Cecily McMillan

  Wall, Lying, Reality

  "Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan Gets 3 Months in Prison: A Rare Interview". Interview with Ashley Codianni, mashable.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Education, Reality, Jail

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• Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

  Richard Thaler

  Ties, Gold, Why Not

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• Money is that dear thing which,
  if you're not careful, you can squander
  your whole life thinking of.

  Mary Jo Salter

  Thinking, Greed, Whole Life

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• The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Mean, Opportunity

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Civil Disobedience”, p.48, Broadview Press

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• Lovers' quarrels are not generally about money. Divorce cases generally are.

  Mason Cooley

  Divorce, Lovers, Quarrels

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• The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth Is, Buried, Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Independence, Mind

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

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• Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Community, Pay, Labor

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.416, Penguin

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• For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• This whole business of Trade gives me to pause and think, as it constitutes false relations between men; inasmuch as I am prone tocount myself relieved of any responsibility to behave well and nobly to that person who I pay with money, whereas if I had not that commodity, I should be put on my good behavior in all companies, and man would be a benefactor to man, as being himself his only certificate that he had a right to those aids and services which each asked of the other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Responsibility, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.202, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowing, Dimes, Whole

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.236, Harvard University Press

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• The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritualcreation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Men, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.362

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• The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Soul, Rooms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.381

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• Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

  Mason Cooley

  Begging, Beggar, Passerby

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Father, Mean

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• The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

  Isabella Bird

  Dollars, Divinity, Worship

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Quality, Purpose, Dishonesty

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• To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Inevitable, Turns, Millions

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