Values being
created
"Money can't buy
happiness; it can, however, rent
it."
–
Unknown
"The only thing
money gives you is the freedom of
not worrying about money."
–
Johnny Carson
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring
happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
–
Kin Hubbard
"Whoever said money can't buy
happiness simply
didn't know where to go shopping."
–
Bo Derek
"If you would know the value of
money, go and try to borrow some."
– Benjamin Franklin
"The greatest luxury of riches is
that they enable you to escape so much good advice."
– Sir Arthur Helps
Targeted market
"Wealth is any income that is at least one
hundred dollars a year more than the income of one's wife's sister's husband."
–
H. L. Mencken
"I don't like money actually, but it quiets
the nerves."
–
Joe E. Lewis
"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a
better class of enemy."
–
Spike Milligan
"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you
in touch with your children."
–
J. Paul Getty
Brief history
"I was so poor growing up ... if
I wasn't a boy ...I'd have nothing to play with."
– Rodney Dangerfield
"When I was a kid I used to pray every
night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so
I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
– Emo Philips
"They were a people so primitive they did not
know how to get money, except by working for it."
–
Joseph Addison
"I made my money the old fashioned way. I was
very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died."
–
Malcolm Forbes
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex,
you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if
you did."
–
James Baldwin
Milestones completed and future plans
"It's important to me that money
not be important to me."
–
Les Brown
"All I ask is the chance to prove
that money can't make me happy."
– Spike Milligan
"I sold my house this week. I got
a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell."
–
Garry Shandling
"Someday I want to be rich. Some
people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to
be."
–
Rita Rudner
"I can't afford to die; I'd lose a fortune."
–
George Burns
"To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to
want it."
– Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes
list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
–
Robert Orben
"Anyone who lives within their means
suffers from a lack of imagination."
–
Oscar Wilde
"Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up."
–
Elbert Hubbard
"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to
have any."
– Katharine Whitehorn
Product
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make
you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
–
Clare Boothe Luce
Operational plan
"If you owe the bank $100 that's
your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
–
J. Paul Getty
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in
bed."
–
George Burns
"I'm spending a year dead for tax
reasons."
– Douglas Adams
Development risk
"The more you chase money, the
harder it is to catch it."
–
Mike
Tatum
Risk management strategy
"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow then to spend tonight
like there's no money."
– P.J. O'Rourke
"I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock."
–
Henny Youngman
Growth risk
"When Wealth walks in the door, the Press Agent comes in through the
window."
– George Ade
Risk management strategy
"I have always said that if I
were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser."
–
Osbert Sitwell
Other risks
"It is the wretchedness of being rich that you
have to live with rich people."
–
Logan Pearsall Smith
"He that is of the opinion money will do
everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
– Benjamin Franklin
Risk management strategy
"Another good thing about being poor is that
when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in
order to gain control of your estate."
–
Oscar Wilde
Analysis
"Finance is the art of passing currency from
hand to hand until it finally disappears."
–
Robert W. Sarnoff
"Acquaintance is a
person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." – Ambrose Bierce
"If you
marry for money, you will surely earn
it." –
Ezra Bowen
"What's the use of
happiness? It can't buy you money."
–
Henry Youngman
Competition
"Money won't make you happy... but everybody
wants to find out for themselves."
–
Zig Ziglar
"Money is always there but the pockets
change."
– Gertrude Stein
"When a person with money meets a person with
experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the
person with the money winds up with the experience."
– Harvey MacKay
Marketing strategy
"God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that
finishes the man."
–
Thomas Fuller
"I believe in the Golden Rule — The Man with
the Gold . . . Rules."
–
Laurence Tureaud
Funds Required and Uses
"A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist."
–
Franklin Jones
"In order to
get a loan you must first prove you don't need it."
–
Murphy's Law: John's Collateral Corollary
"Making money is a hobby that will complement any
other hobbies you have, beautifully."
– Scott Alexander
"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."
–
Bill Hoest
"Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on
women. The rest I spent foolishly."
– George Raft
Financial Projections
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy
something."
– Jackie Mason
"So many people spend their health gaining wealth,
and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health."
– Jackie Mason
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