Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: – I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

[on money] It cannot buy you happiness. Some independence, yes.

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

Look, I’m not a rich person. I’m a poor person with Money.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

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

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction!

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

We’re not motivated to make more money. We all have too much already. We want to do good work.

Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.

I rob banks because that’s where the money is.