Thomas Jefferson

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

I’ve earned all this money. I’ve worked for it. I didn’t cheat anybody. I didn’t issue junk bonds and put people out of work. I earned it. And I live relatively modestly given my level of success and wealth.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it’s very busy, when they have one.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Money’s only something you need in case you don’t die tomorrow.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

We didn’t actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

What’s worth doing is worth doing for money.