Money Quotes

The best way to judge the worth of a person’s wealth is to count the number of genuine persons he has got in his network.

That's what money people do - try to f*ck your stuff up. That's why they've got money: because they f*ck people over.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Money and finances are completely artificial categories. In natural conditions they don't exist. Man made them, and it is our form of communication.

Money, as a category, doesn't deserve love, respect nor hate. It's a category towards which you mustn't have emotions. Money is just an instrument.

It has been said that time is money. That proverb understates the case. Time is a great deal more than money. If you have time you can obtain money—usually. But though you have the wealth of a cloak-room attendant at the Carlton Hotel, you cannot buy yourself a minute more time than I have, or the cat by the fire has.”

I'm more concerned about the return OF my money than ON my money

My definition of success is not worrying if money will come out of the cash machine.

Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much money they make for the firm.

I attend derivatives sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help clients. It’s purely about how we can make the most possible money off of them. If you were an alien from Mars and sat in on one of these meetings, you would believe that a client’s success or progress was not part of the thought process at all.

Being in Chapter 13 is only a chapter in the story of your life

Expectations and entitlements don't cost a thing except for those who enable it.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Live like no one else so that one day you can live like no one else.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

Pride and poverty walk together.

Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want...as soon as possible. So governments that forbid you to accumulate wealth are in effect decreeing that you work slowly. ...let you earn $3 million over fifty years, but they're not willing to let you work so hard that you can do it in two.

The danger is when money is combined with prestige, as in, say, corporate law, or medicine. A comparatively safe and prosperous career with some automatic baseline prestige is dangerously tempting to someone young, who hasn't thought much about what they really like.

Every once in a while one of these contemporaries made a farewell round of calls before going up to New York or Philadelphia or Pittsburgh to go into business, but mostly they just stayed round in this languid paradise of dreamy skies and firefly evenings and noisy nigger street fairs - and especially of gracious, soft-voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money.