Money Quotes - Page 48

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put in its place a new message: There's nothing in the universe that isn't God. And God, and the energy which is God, is found in everything, including money. It isn't like God is everywhere except in your billfold. In fact, God is everywhere.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time. Neither works.

Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.

Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.

[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or birth or income.

Money is a needful and precious thing

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.