Money & Finance: Money Quotes

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"A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Money gives me pleasure all the time"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

Hilaire Belloc

"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

Hilaire Belloc

"The reason Ronald Reagan gets slammed for having so badly exacerbated the problem of deficit spending is that he so plainly deserves it"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost"

Evelyn Waugh, Author

Evelyn Waugh

"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

Edmund Wilson

"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem"

William J. Clinton, President

William J. Clinton

"Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

Jack Nicholson

"It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money"

Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen

"Read my lips: no new taxes"

George H. W. Bush, President

George H. W. Bush

"Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from"

Merton Miller, Economist

"The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people, and I'm the smallest fish in it"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

Michael Hutchence

"We didn't actually overspend our budget. The Health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"The first year of the Bush administration, we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

Everett Dirksen

"Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor"

Judy Garland, Actress

Judy Garland

"You lose your manners when you are poor"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands, he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way"

O. Henry, Writer

"I don't know what's better, gettin' laid or gettin' paid"

Kanye West, Musician

Kanye West

"You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills"

John Barrow, Politician

"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia"

Cher, Musician

Cher

"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale"

Zig Ziglar, Author

"I never killed anybody. I never wanted to hurt anybody. I just wanted to make money"

Meyer Lansky, Criminal

Meyer Lansky

"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

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