Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ”

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. ”

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. ”

I don't have more money. I won't have more money than any of the candidates, even the Republican candidates. We know that already. But we are building this campaign team like I would build a business. And that is, we are building it so far with no debt. ”

My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal agencies, and then ask each of my new agency heads to find another ten percent by drilling down. That's what you do in business to come up with approximately 20 percent cuts for the first fiscal year budget. ”

In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered. ”

It's not easy to play in a framework that requires simplicity and to tastefully find ways to interject the kind of freedom that we have in playing jazz. ”

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle. ”

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. ”

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. ”