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How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?
Sep 17, 2025
I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.
If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
Dont think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.
Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I made my money the old-fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died.
Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.
Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Money often costs too much.
It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
The real excitement is playing the game.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy and all that stuff. It’s basically socialism and communism.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel of land in 1780 and have been accumulating family wealth by collecting rents ever since. In America, that old money is long gone - through instability, inflation, taxes, philanthropy, and spending.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.
My philosophy has always been, do what you love and the money will follow.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.