Money Quotes
compiled by Mia Cronan

I've come across a plethora of quotes lately, some of which deal with money, finances, and the like.  I thought it would be amusing to compile some of them for you.  Enjoy!

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread."
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. "
- Robert Orben

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Some people will never be satisfied with a million dollars while other are
satisfied with a few.
-Unknown.

If you can't be happy with eleven million dollars, something's wrong with you.
- Mark McGwire.     1963-

Man made the money, money never made the man.
-Unknown.

I sell, therefore, I am. You buy, therefore I eat.
- Craig Dormanen.

Too many of us are spending money we haven't earned to buy things we don't
need to impress people we don't like.
-Unknown.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
- Marcus.

It's called "cold cash" because it's never in your pockets long enough to get warm.
-Unknown.

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when
they ran out of money.
-Unknown.

Why does the Christmas season always come when the stores are at their
busiest?
-Unknown.

If you can't pronounce it, you can't afford it.
- Wilson.

Money is always there, but the pockets change.
- Stein.

Two can live as cheap as one, but it costs twice as much.
-Unknown.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W.C. Fields.    1879-1946

I hate money, but it soothes my nerves.
- Louis.

If you want to know what a man is really like, make notice how he acts when
he loses money.
- Proverb.

If you want to make money, go where the money is.
- Kennedy.

I finally know what distinguishes me from the other beasts: financial worries.
- Renard.

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain.    1835-1910

Real wealth can only increase.
- Fuller.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best, former soccer star, who retired at age  28 and was bankrupt by age 30.

Money may not buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
-Unknown.

There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in the
company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money
somewhere else.
- Sam Walton.    1918-1992

Reading about economics after watching a lot of economic activity is like
reading the assembly instructions after the Christmas toy has been put
together. Certain significant patterns begin to take shape in the mind, even
though the instructions are still gibberish and the toy doesn't work.
- P.J. O'Rourke.    1947-

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