Money Quotes - Page 39

• 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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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Suicidal, Acceptance, People

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

  Lucian

  Wise, Moments, Ends

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Carpe Diem, People, Rich

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

  A. Philip Randolph

  War, Impossible, Anti War

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• History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents.... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Order, Libertarian

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.27

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• Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Careers, Majority

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Slavery, Fortune

  "Ad Polybium De Consolatione" by Seneca the Younger, Ch. VI, line 5, 40–45 AD.

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• But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Success, Pretty Things

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• Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Beauty

  Major Barbara (1907) preface

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• The only wealth is life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wealth

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• The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Way, Exception

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, One In A Million, Know How

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2207, Delphi Classics

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• However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, May, Rationalize

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Years, Desert

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.109

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• I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Cry

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• Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

  Robertson Davies

  War, People, Mind

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• There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Race, Idols

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

  T. Harv Eker

  Secret, Problem, Wealth

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 23, 2014

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• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

  Honore de Balzac

  Time, Children, Literature

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Firm of Nucingen”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Honor, Cash

  "Time Enough for Love".

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• Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dollars, Thousand

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• Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Fool, Made

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• No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Men, Credit

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