Money Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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