Quotes on Money

We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

At the end of the day, the question to ask yourself is this: do your expenses, big and small, bring you the thrill they once did?

You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

How many things I can do without!

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

We all know a variety of ways to make a living. What's even more fascinating is figuring out ways to make a fortune.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

The world also remains a hopeful place. Calls for democracy and human rights are being reborn everywhere, and these calls are an expression of support for the values enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They encourage our hopes for a more stable, more peaceful, more prosperous world.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.