Hans Kasper, MS-CPA, PSMoney
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"Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." ~Judge Learned Hand-U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"The
federal income tax system is a disgrace to the human race."
"Some men will rob you with a six gun
and some with a fountain pen." "So a slave is
to the master, a borrower is to the lender." "A bank is a place where they lend you an
umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."
"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous
to be happy. It's only necessary be rich." "Prosperity is living easily and happily
in the real world, whether you have money or not." "When a man tells you that he got rich
through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?' " "You cannot motivate the best people with
money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any
field are motivated by passion." "Prosperity is a way of living and
thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living
and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."
"Organized crime in America takes in over
forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office
supplies." "You aren't wealthy until you have
something money can't buy." "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to
sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat
and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy." "Money never made a man happy yet, nor
will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The
more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it
makes one." "I've never sought success in order to
get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in
success." "If you want to know what God thinks of
money, just look at the people he gave it to." "Money is human happiness in the
abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human
happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money."
"Fame is a vapor, popularity is an
accident, money takes wings, those who cheer you today may curse you
tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character." "Make no mistake, my friend, it takes
more than money to make men rich." "You can't get rid of poverty by giving
people money." "Squeezing our money out of politicians
is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase
an Oscar Hammerstein love song, once they have found a way to take
our money, they never let it go." "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all
is lost." "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 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." "With money in your pocket, you are wise
and you are handsome and you sing well too." "There was a time when a fool and his
money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."
"A penny saved is a penny earned."
"The love of money is the root of all
evil." "Lack of money is the root of all evil."
"Money is the sign of liberty. To curse
money is to curse liberty-to curse life, which is nothing, if it be
not free." "Money for me has only one sound:
liberty." "Money was invented so we could know
exactly how much we owe." "The entire essence of America is the
hope to first make money - then make money with money - then make
lots of money with lots of money." "If all the rich people in the world
divided up their money amongst themselves there wouldn't be enough
to go around." "Everyone should have enough money to get
plastic surgery." "It is good to have money and the things
that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while
and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy."
"I've got all the money I'll ever need,
if I die by four o'clock." "The trick is to stop thinking of it as
'your' money." "Money can't buy you happiness, but it
does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." "What's the use of happiness? It can't
buy you money." "Remember that time is money."
"The best career advice given to the
young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and pay someone else to
do it.' " "A budget is just a method of worrying
before you spend money, as well as afterward." "I'm proud to be paying taxes in the
United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half
the money. " "To produce an income tax return that
has any depth to it, any feeling, one must have Lived - and
Suffered." "The safest way to double your money is
to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." "Some people will do anything for money
~ even work." "He who dies with the most toys is,
nonetheless, still dead." "Money talks; the secret is to hold it
long enough to hear what it says." "The hardest thing in the world to
understand is income tax. " "The art of taxation consists in so
plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of
feathers with the least amount of hissing." "Change is good, but dollars are better"
"You’d be surprised how much it costs to
look this cheap." "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag
them down to your level." "It’s a recession when your
neighbor
loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours." "You can’t have everything. Where would
you put it?" "Giving money and power to government is
like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." "Give me the strength to change the
things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great
big bag of money." "Those who have some means think that
the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it
is money" "A bank is a place that will lend you
money if you can prove that you don’t need it. " "When a man says money can do anything,
that settles it: he hasn’t got any." "Riches enlarge rather than satisfy
appetites." "Some day my boat will come in, and with
my luck I’ll be at the airport." "Wealth buys leisure, but not wisdom."
"Anyone pretending he has no interest in
money is either a fool or a knave." "The only way not to think about money
is to have a great deal of it." "We can tell our values by looking at
our checkbook stubs." "Money is of value for what it buys, and
in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner
alone." "We have rights, as individuals, to give
as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of
Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public
money." "For the folk-community does not exist
on the fictitious value of money but on the results of productive
labor, which is what gives money its value." "God gave me my money. I believe the
power to make money is a gift from God . . . to be developed & used
to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been
endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make
money & still more money & to use the money I make for the good of
my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience." "All progress is based upon a universal
innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its
income." "Money can't buy friends. But you can
afford a better class of enemy." "When a fellow says it ain't the money
but the principle of the thing, it's the money." "All I ask is a chance to prove that
money can't make me happy." "The only reason I made a commercial for
American Express was to pay for my American Express bill." "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." "Money is something you have to make in
case you don't die." "Part of the $10 million I spent on
gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent
foolishly." "If you owe the bank $100 that's your
problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's
problem." "When a person
with experience meets a person with money, the person with
experience will get the money. And the person with the money will
get some experience." "A billion here,
a billion there - pretty soon it adds up to real money."
"You are a den of
vipers and thieves! I intend to rout you out and, by the eternal
God, I will rout you out!." "Gentlemen prefer
bonds."
"To make a million, start with $900,000." ~Morton Shulman. "When I have nothing to do at night and can't think, I always iron my money." ~Robert Mitchum in "His Kind of Woman." "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do." ~Bob Dylan "More and
more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net
income with my gross habits." "Money
isn't everything. There's always MasterCard and Visa."
"If you can count
your money, you don’t have a billion dollars." "It's
morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money." "Whoever
said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go
shopping." "I'm not a
paranoid deranged millionaire. I'm a billionaire."
There is a very easy way to return from a
casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket
without resorting to violence.
Always borrow
money from a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back.
If you lend someone $20, and never see that
person again, it was probably worth it.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive,
try missing a couple of car payments.
Women prefer men who have something tender
about them - especially the legal kind.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the
chain and whip of the slave driver.
We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have
the gold make the rules.
When I was young I thought that money was
the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it
is.
October: This is one of the peculiarly
dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July,
January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December,
August and February.
Put not your trust in money, but put your
money in trust.
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
If all the economists were laid end to end,
they'd never reach a conclusion.
If the nation's economists were laid end to
end, they would point in all directions.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund
from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to
start with.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only
empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one
thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft
alarm.
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