Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon.
Peter Lynch
Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.
Jack Benny
Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.
Martin Amis
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
Liking money like I like it is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali
To acquire money requires valour, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Berthold Auerbach
Carl Icahn is smart and unrelenting, he doesn’t care what other people think, and even though he is not always right, I would never bet against him.
Leon Black
Never get deeply in debt to someone who cried at the end of Scarface.
Robert S Wieder
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
Jackie Mason
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to think that the general public can ever make money out of market forecasts. For who will buy when the general public, at a given signal, rushes to sell out at a profit?
Benjamin Graham
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(This story appears in the 12 July, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)