~MONEY & ECONOMICS~

"...If I had a million dollars..."

MONEY

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. This planet has--or rather had--a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy." ~Douglas Adams

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." ~Aristotle

"Economics is war pursued by other means." ~Raymond F. Devoe, Jr.

"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny--Did you ever try buying them without money?" ~Ogden Nash

"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

"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me deprived was a bad image, I was underpriveledged. Then they told me underpriveledged was overused, I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I sure have a great vocabulary." ~Jules Feiffer

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." ~J. Paul Getty

"We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making in the street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition." ~William James

"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face." ~Juvenal

"People like aristocrats, goldsmiths, or money-lenders, who either do no work at all, or do work that's really not essential, are rewarded for their laziness or their unnecessary activities by a splendid life of luxury.  But labourers, coachmen, carpenters, and farmhands, who never stop working like cart-horses, at jobs so essential that, if they did stop working, they'd bring any country to a standstill within twelve months--what happens to them? They get so little to eat, and have such a wretched time, that they'd be almost better off if they were they cart-horses. Then at least they wouldn't work quite such long hours, their food wouldn't be very much worse, they'd enjoy it more, and they'd have no fears for the future." ~Thomas More, Utopia

"The moment money goes, you can also say good-bye to fear, tension, anxiety, overwork, and sleepless nights. Why, even poverty itself, the one problem that has alawys seemed to need money for its solution, would promptly disappear if money ceased to exist." ~Thomas More, Utopia

"Invest in inflation. It is the only thing going up." ~Will Rogers

VALUABLES

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" ~Stephen Wright

"Servants, tradesmen, even farm-labourers, in fact all classes of society are recklessly extravagant about clothes and food." ~Thomas More, Utopia

"Why anyone should be so fascinated by the dull gleam of a tiny bit of stone, when he has all the stars in the sky to look at." ~Thomas More, Utopia

BANKS

"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?" ~Bertold Brecht

"Only in American banks can you find the pens chained to the counter and the doors wide open." ~Branden Kerr