My partner Charlie Munger says there is only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage.
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My partner Charlie Munger says there is only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage.
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting.
A life, whose purpose is money, is death.
You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.
A man with no money and a woman without beauty sees the world without illusion.
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.
I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don't forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can't make money without making sacrifices.
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
I'm not Russell Brand or Ricky Gervais, but I have enough money that I don't have to work. Most people who've done what I do don't have that.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family. Because we were really in debt with the money. And - so I gave to my father this suitcase full of money. And he couldn't believe it. And that was something very special.
It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.
We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.
One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.