MONEY - WEALTH

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“For the love of money is the root of all sorts of injurious things, and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Tim. 6:10 – The BIBLE

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need—if I die by four o’clock. – Henny Youngman

Borrow money from pessimists.  They don’t ever expect it back. – Benjamin Disraeli - Former British Prime Minister / statesman) - )1804-1881)

Don’t confuse fame with success.  Madonna is one—Helen Keller is the other. – Erma Bombeck - (American humorist / author   

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. – Voltaire

Ambition is a poor excuse for having enough sense to be lazy. – Steven Wright

We make a living by what we get—we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

 You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. – P. J. O’Rourke

 “They do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.  Well, is it too much to have them live and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath?  Anyway, my father didn’t think so.  People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped frustrated old man, they’re cattle.  Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you will ever be!” – James Stewart (George Bailey) to Lionel Barrymore (Potter) – IT’S AWONDERFUL LIFE – Francis Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra (screenplay)

Buy land—they’ve stopped making it. – Mark Twain

Every new possession loads us with a new weariness. – John Ruskin                  

It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money. – W. C. Fields

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. – Henry Ford

I’ve learned that money doesn’t buy class. – Andy Rooney                             

No one ever drowned in his own sweat. – Ann Landers

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise. – Shirley Jones

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley

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“For wisdom is a protection just as money is a protection, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.” – Solomon – Eccl 7:12 – The BIBLE

You can’t have everything—where would you put it? – Steven Wright

“The telephone has too many short comings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to us.” – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff. – Frank Zappa

I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943

In the long run men only hit what they aim at.  Therefore, they had better aim at something high. – Henry David Thoreau

Procrastination is like a credit card.  It’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Chris Parker

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.  Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.

 “This was the story of Howard Beale, the first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.” – TV station manager on Howard Beale (Peter Finch) in NETWORK – Paddy Chayefsky (Screenplay)

No one has ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February. – Suze Orman

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to a teenager. – P. J.  O’Rourke                                        

Most people work hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quit. – George Carlin

Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemies. – Spike Milligan                

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people that have too much money and power, and no empathy. – Alice Walker

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. – John Ruskin     

If we don’t know some poor people, how can we identify, sympathize, criticize, love or even forgive them? – Gary Pulliam                                   

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.  A successful wife is one who can find such a man. – Lana Turner

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“Let your way of life be free from the love of money, while you are content with the present things. For he has said: “I will never leave you, and I will never abandon you.””  – Apostle Paul – Heb. 13:5 – The BIBLE

Bank accounts are like toothpaste—easy to take out, but hard to put back in. – Me

Credit card companies are no better than drug dealers.  They hang around our schools, prey on the young students, and entice with promises of shopping sprees and unrealistic interest rates.  When their victims are sufficiently addicted to the plastic substance, these ruthless banks, the equivalent of drug lords, jack up the interest rates, making it impossible for their victims to recover. – David A. Lloyd, Studio City, CA.

Private jets cost a lot of money. – Donald Trump

The saddest thing I can imagine is getting used to luxury. – Charlie Chaplin

I’ve played so many hookers they don’t pay me the regular way anymore.  They just leave it on the dresser. – Shirley MacLaine

What a lot of things there are that men can do without. – Socrates

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life.  To be successful, it is very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head. – A. R. Rahman

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. – Henry Ford

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. – Kinky Friedman

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free.  If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. – Edmund Burke

The hardest thing to understand is income tax. – Albert Einstein                      

The world at large doesn’t judge us by who we are and what we know, it judges us by what we have. – Joyce Brothers

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. – Pablo Picasso

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in some hands.  In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Rule # 1: Never lose money.  Rule # 2: Never forget rule # 1. – Warren Buffet

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. – Karl Marx

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The rich one rules the poor, and the borrower is a slave to the lender. – Solomon – Prov. 22:7 – The BIBLE

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once, and put it in your pocket. – Ken Hubbard

Money will not create success, the freedom to make it will. – Nelson Mandela

I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I bet I would be a darling at it. – Dorothy Parker

It’s better to live rich than die rich. – Samuel Johnson

There would be no need for deductions or filling out yearly tax forms.  Hence, the Internal Revenue Service and all its complex tax stipulations would be abolished.  All other taxes would thus be eliminated.  No property tax, no personal property tax, estate tax, income tax, gift tax, capital gains, tariffs, duties, alternative minimum, use tax, Social Security, Medicare and self-employment taxes. – Russell D. Longmire – A NEW TAX POLICY FOR A NEW NATION

I’ve noticed the very rich possess a form of hypocrisy, an aloofness, an elitism, that prevents them from mixing with or praying for the poor. – Gary Pulliam

Luxury ruins republics – poverty ruins monarchies. – Charles Montesquieu

There is nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll.  A big one is always in danger. – Wilson Mizner

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to a certain part of material objects measured by Money? – John Ruskin

Being rich is having money, being wealthy is having time. – Stephan Swid - (American businessman) - (1940-2019)

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. – Andrew Young

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. – Robert Frost

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money cannot buy. – Unknown

“For example, who of you wanting to build a tower does not first sit down and calculate the expense to see if he has enough to complete it?  Otherwise, he might lay its foundation but not be able to finish it, and all the onlookers would start to ridicule him, saying: “This man started to build but was not able to finish.”” – Apostle Luke – Luke 14:28-30 – The BIBLE

Success is always temporary.  When it’s all said and done, the only thing you have left is your character. – Vince Gill

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I’ve been on a calendar but I’ve never been on time. – Marilyn Monroe

As long as they look good, they can interior decorate their music.  They don’t have to play anything, just build an illusion that they are creative. – Joni Mitchell on modern music               

Always be the first rate version of yourself, instead of the second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing.  Now I know that sometimes nothing is better. – Glenda Jackson