Money Quotes

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

• Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

• A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

• Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

• Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.

• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

• A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

• A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

• Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

• I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

• I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

• The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'

• Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

• I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

• It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they'd say, 'We'll let you know.'"

• So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

• Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.

• Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.

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