Money Quotes - page 10

I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." (Mitch Hedberg)
I don't want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. View quote
Temple Grandin
Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. View quote
Daniel Kahneman
There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
People say money is not the key to happiness, but I've always figured if you have enough money you can get a key made. View quote
Joan Rivers
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked. View quote
Frances Burney
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not Governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future. View quote
P. D. James
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. View quote
Martin Amis
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough. (Martin Amis)
The poor and the middle class work for money.” "The rich have money work for them. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal. View quote
Robert Silverberg
My father said: You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals. View quote
J. Paul Getty
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. View quote
Don Marquis
Money can't buy poverty. View quote
Marty Feldman
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. View quote
Edmund Hillary
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. (Henry Fielding)
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. View quote
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. View quote
James A. Garfield
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. View quote
Benjamin Franklin