A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
An economist is an expert who will know tommorow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers, six if one went to Harvard.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers; six if one went to Harvard.
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Economists are people who work with numbers but don't have the personality to be accountants.
I am not an economist. I am an honsest man!
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
I'd give $1000 to be a millionaire.
I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it ... it would have been much better.
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
Money couldnt buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.