“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”
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“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
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“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
“Saving is another form of earning.”
“It's not how much you make, it's how much you keep.”
“Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.”
“Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.”
“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”
“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.”
“In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.”
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
“Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.”
“Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.”
“You can be young without money; but you can't be old without it.”
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
“There are two ways to think about what money buys. There's the standard of living, which can be measured in dollars, and there's the quality of your life, which can't be measured at all.”
“It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.”
“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”
“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”
“I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.”