Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't take any money from my ministry. I'm not on salary. My husband supports me.

Anne Graham Lotz

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Brendan Behan

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Ben Stein

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

Felix Dennis

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Havelock Ellis

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Henry Ford

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

Kevin J. Anderson

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

Lydia Davis

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

Mary Karr

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

Noam Chomsky

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

Norman Finkelstein

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Norman Spinrad

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

Peter Singer

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

Robert Hass

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Robert Kiyosaki

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Stanley Hauerwas