Money Quotes - Page 37

• My name is Joel Goodson. I deal in human fulfillment. I grossed over eight thousand dollars in one night.

  Tom Cruise

  Night, Names, Eight

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• For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

  William Shakespeare

  War, Heart, Mean

  William Shakespeare (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.781

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• Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

  Steve Scott

  Chance, Kind, Wealth

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• I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had in my life. I've never set out to make a lot of money.

  Clive Palmer

  Life, Thinking, Wealth

  "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 07, 2009.

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• They (the Rothschilds) have never dreamed of being ashamed of their wealth nor of disguising their way of life, no more than they have ever failed to assume their roles and responsibilities as Jews.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Responsibility, Roles, Way

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• According to an old French motto, Noblesse oblige - one must live up to one's name. The Rothschilds' condition of life has imposed on them a second motto: Richesse oblige - one must live up to one's fortune.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Family, Responsibility, Names

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• It's not just the emotional, intellectual, and physical gaps between you and money. The real gap is always between what you think you want and what you actually want, deep down.

  Stuart Wilde

  Real, Intelligent, Emotional

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• A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

  Adi Da

  Funny, Humorous, Needs

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• Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

  Abraham Flexner

  Education, Peace, War

  Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

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• If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, War, Army

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

  William J. Clinton

  Freedom, War, Cost

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• A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

  Vanna Bonta

  War, People, Evil

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• The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Men, Economic

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.48, VM eBooks

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• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Revolution, Economics

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• It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

  Albert J. Nock

  War, States, Wells

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• There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty

  Andrew Cuomo

  War, Poverty, World Poverty

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• Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Victory, Cost

  Thomas Paine (1792). “Rights of Man, Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution... by T. Paine...”

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• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

  Graves B. Erskine

  War, Doubt, Victory

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• Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

  John Ciardi

  War, Boys, Cash

  John Ciardi (1966). “This strangest everything”

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• The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

  Bret Harte

  Leadership, Sports, Good Luck

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• True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

  John Hay

  Home, Gambling, Luck

  Distichs no. 15 (1890)

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• If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Want

  80 Microcomputing Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, features.slashdot.org. 1980.

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• I need to make an okay living. The people who work for us need to. But after you make a comfortable living, how much more do you need? It's like I make a joke about nerd values, because I'm very much in the rich nerd tradition. And you know, we say, like, hey, people pay us for this stuff, like programming. You know, what else do we need?

  Craig Newmark

  Jobs, Technology, People

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• We have always tried to concentrate on the long term, and to place bets on technology we believe will have a significant impact over time. It's hard to imagine now, but when we started Google most people thought search was a solved problem and that there was no money to be made apart from some banner advertising. We felt the exact opposite: that search quality was very poor, and that awesome user experiences would clearly make money.

  Larry Page

  Believe, Technology, Opposites

  "Larry Page Just Put Out A Big Manifesto" by Matt Lynley, www.businessinsider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

  John Wanamaker

  Business, Marketing, Half

  "Confessions of an Advertising Man". Book by David Ogilvy, Chapter 3, 1963.

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