Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. ”

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. ”

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad. ”

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. ”

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. ”

The main thing I believe in is freedom. ”

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. ”

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere. ”

Back when Detroit was the head of auto manufacturing, it was clear where profits were created. Right? A car was made in Detroit. There was little argument that you could make that some of the money from that should be sent overseas to Ireland. ”

Not so long ago, companies that borrowed lots of money were considered risky, appropriate only for daredevil stock pickers. Those with lots of cash on hand and few outstanding debts might be dull stocks, but they were at least safe bets for bondholders. ”