“That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.” MenKindMayMightFatherMoneyWifeSweetBrotherGoldCompanionCheatWondrous Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)
“This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.” WorldFirstsWantedJobsFatherMoneyCareersAdviceNeededBe GoodUnemployedGood AdvicePaychecksRoller CoasterCoastersTop Of The World Author:Joss Whedon
“I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.” MotherFatherParentAbilityMoneySpendingEarningSpending MoneyEarning It Book:Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times
“Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.” IfsLooksFatherInterestMoneyGrowingEconomicFashionHugeCoupleSeasonsManagementRateLazyKeep GoingCashIdleIndicationFranklinInterest RateLiquidityBen Franklin Author:Malcolm Forbes
“All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.” ChildrenHandsFatherWishWaterMoneyPowerRepublicanWoodsCorporationsRevolutionaryDrawersAristocraticMoney Power Author:Andrew Jackson
“We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.” WantGovernmentFatherPoliticsMoneyWorryDemocracyPolicyFitTaxesConstitutionSizeIdeologyFree SpeechBathtubs Author:Grover Norquist
“To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.” MenMayMeanCountryDesireFatherPleasureMoneyReturnAbstractRansom Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton