Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

But the lightning which explodes and fashions planets, maker of planets and suns, is in him. On one side elemental order, sandstone and granite, rock-ledges, peat-bog, forest, sea and shore; and on the other part, thought, the spirit which composes and decomposes nature.

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 spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

Too much money ain’t enough money.

I’m bout this shmoney!

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail!

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

All money is a matter of belief.

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

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

If you’re given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.