Quotes on Money

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.