Management Insights

Management Quotes: Finance Management

• "God is on everyone's side and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies." -- Jean Anouilh ,  playwright
• "Success produces success, just as money produces money." -- Diane Ackerman , American-born author, writer
• We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford
• Every day 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
• "Early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise." -- Peter's Almanac 
• "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. -- Sir James Matthew Barrie ,  writer 
• "I cannot afford to waste my time making money." -- Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz , zoologist, geologist 
• "The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm." -- Josh Billings , humorist, essayist
• "Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience." -- Ludwig van Beethoven , composer 
• 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. -- Henry Ford
• "I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual." -- John Fellows Akers ,  business executive, Chairman of IBM 
• "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." -- Sir Francis Bacon ,  philosopher, essayist
• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford
• "The only thing I like about rich people is their money." -- Lady Nancy Astor , English politician, first female member of the British Parliament 
• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes... -- Dave Barry
• The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein
• 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. -- Arthur Godfrey
• Only the little people pay taxes. -- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate,
• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton
• A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi
• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings
• Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz
• Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde
• "Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." -- Kurt Herbert Alder , German chemist 
• "On packing: Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money." -- Susan Butler Anderson 
• "The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age." -- Wystan Hugh Auden ,  writer
• "Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!" -- Joachim du Bellay , poet 
• "Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves." -- Josh Billings , [Henry Wheeler Shaw]  humorist, essayist 
• In my opinion, the source of all evil is not the love of money, it is scarcity or lack of money. - Med Yones.
• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde

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