Subject: Money (Page 16)

Business: The art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.

American author

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

(1930 – ) financier & investment businessman

The greater the funding, the longer it takes to make the mistake.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

(1933 – 1998) comedian & actor

Virginia has already spent more on plugging Shawn Moore for the Heisman Trophy than Thomas Jefferson spent getting elected president.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

I’m not a paranoid deranged millionaire; Goddammit, I’m a billionaire.

(1905 – 1976) industrialist, aviator, engineer, film producer & philanthropist

People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.

(1925 – 1980) British comedian & actor

Money is something you got to make in case you don’t die.

(? – 1968) Russian-American, founder of New York’s famed Stage Deli

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

(1818 – 1885) humorist

Sure, it's nice to win; but there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose.

professional baseball player

When we played, World Series checks meant something; now all they do is screw up your taxes.

American baseball pitcher & announcer

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

I'd rather be rich than stupid.

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

(1918 – 1986) American lyricist

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

(1919 – 1990) educator & writer