“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should
have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people
starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own
planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers.
Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can
you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only
got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52
rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make
sense to me. It don’t.”
― Tupac Shakur
― Tupac Shakur
― Oscar Wilde
“Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld
“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.”
― Steve Martin
“In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even
non-human lives. But society had changed, and they no longer felt that
way. As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant,
losing the sorrow of 'we have no other choice.' I think that in the
essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without
limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
― Hayao Miyazaki
“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.”
― Jeffrey D. Sachs
“When you have two people who love each other, are happy and gay
and really good work is being done by one or both of them, people are
drawn to them as surely as migrating birds are drawn at night to a
powerful beacon. If the two people were as solidly constructed as the
beacon there would be little damage except to the birds. Those who
attract people by their happiness and their performance are usually
inexperienced. They do not know how not to be overrun and how to go
away. They do not always learn about the good, the attractive, the
charming, the soon-beloved, the generous, the understanding rich who
have no bad qualities and who give each day the quality of a festival
and who, when they have passed and taken the nourishment they needed,
leave everything deader than the roots of any grass Attila's horses'
hooves have ever scoured.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
– Donald Trump
“I’ve known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn’t get the
idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They
thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that
just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something — it’s
not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into
action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great
idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go
nowhere.” – Donald Trump
“Many people are afraid to fail, so they don’t try. They may dream,
talk, and even plan, but they don’t take that critical step of putting
their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you
must take risks. Even if you fail, that’s how you learn. There has never
been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn’t fall on the ice.”
– Donald Trump
“Too many people spend money they earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people that they don’t like.” ― Will Rogers
“Money is a great servant but a bad master.” ― Francis Bacon
“The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.” – Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound
ought and six, result misery.” ― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
“The more you learn, the more you earn.” ― Frank Clark
“Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are.” – James W. Frick
“One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.” – Orison Swett Marden
“To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.” – Berthold Auerbach
“More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.” — Roger Babson
“What’s keeping you from being rich? In most cases it’s simply a lack
of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and
you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.” – Suze Orman