“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!”
Money does not buy happiness, but the lack of it can buy a lot of misery. These quotes explore wealth, poverty, generosity, greed, financial wisdom, and the uncomfortable truth that how you spend your money reveals what you actually value.
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
“Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.”
“When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.”
“Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.”
“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
“I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.”
“Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.”
“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.”
“I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.”
“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
“Money is a poor man's credit card.”
“Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.”
“We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.”