Famous Money Quotes
"Part of the $10 million I
spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent
foolishly."
George Raft.
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank
$100 million, that's the bank's problem."
J P Getty.
"The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
Mark Twain.
"If there is anyone to whom
I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are."
Errol Flynn.
"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."
Sir Francis Bacon.
"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Where there is money there is no art."
William Blake
"Money isn't everything, but it's a long way ahead of what comes next."
Edmund Stockdale
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
Oscar Wilde
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
Sir Winston Churchill
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