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Sayings on Money

Money matters. Quite a lot!

Published: Jun 28, 2013 06:22:20 AM IST
Updated: Jun 28, 2013 11:04:57 AM IST
Sayings on Money
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Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.
Peter Lynch

Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.
Jack Benny

Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin Amis

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali

To acquire money requires valour, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Berthold Auerbach

Carl Icahn is smart and unrelenting, he doesn’t care what other people think, and even though he is not always right, I would never bet against him.
Leon Black

Never get deeply in debt to someone who cried at the end of Scarface.
Robert S Wieder

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
Jackie Mason

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. For who will buy when the general public, at a given signal, rushes to sell out at a profit?
Benjamin Graham

(This story appears in the 12 July, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)

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