Money Quotes - Page 30

• Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Want, Enough

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every man has his price.

  Robert Walpole

  Men, Bribery, Every Man

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• So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Strength, Women, Heart

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• There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.

  Arthur Caplan

  Class, People, Priorities

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• Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Eggs, Giving, May

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• Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Commercial Banks, Bankers, Dollars

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• Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the US for the benefit of themselves and their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers, but the truth is the Fed has usurped the government. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks governments at will.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Cheer, School, Giving

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• American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Running, Years, Long

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• Litigation: A form of hell whereby money is transferred from the pockets of the proletariat to that of lawyers.

  Kin Hubbard

  Law, Pockets, Hell

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• If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Marriage, Girl, Husband

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• Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gold, Silver, Trade

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.361

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• We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

  C. A. Bartol

  Passion, Brain, Mind

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• The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Angel, Night, Men

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• Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Men, Use

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• What's money without happiness?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.

  Philo

  Men, Power, Evil

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• Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Dresses, Deeds

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• I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

  Charles de Gaulle

  Military, War, Men

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• When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.

  W. H. Davies

  Men, Doors, Joy

  William Henry Davies, “Money”

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Secret, Vices, Tongue

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• Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

  Anton Chekhov

  World, Better Place, Seems

  Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Poor, Easier, Wealthy

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• How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Grace, Dollars

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• A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Untrustworthy, Incompetence, Careless

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