money
A fast buck is better than a slow ten.
Conversation at Hank’s Alley, Tarrytown, New York
Savings is really not an amount; it’s an activity.
Quoted in: “Free Advice on Money for Those With Little,” The New York Times, by Fernanda Santos, March 28, 2010.
The very rich have such a touching faith in the efficacy of small sums.
Quoted in Tennessee Williams: Memoirs (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975), 3.
I was expert at the kind of hallucinatory economics that turned every snake into a ladder—whenever I dined in a fairly expensive restaurant, for instance, I calculated that I’d saved money by not dining in a very expensive one, and the money saved I tacked on to my inner bank account, as if it were money earned. Thus I became richer every time I ate out at my own expense, and twice as much richer when I ate out at someone else’s expense.
The Smoking Diaries (New York: Da Capo Press, 2005), 204.
The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.
Interview by Amy Kellner, Vice, October 1, 2008.
I think a portfolio of farms that are doing state-of-the-art farming over a 20-, 30-year horizon will be the best investment money can buy.
“A Banker Bets on Organic Farming,” by Mark Bittman, August 28, 2012.
Look, money is hard. It took me years to get comfortable with the idea of being a financial grownup. And I doubt that many of you got into this business for the money. I’m guessing you’re here because you love design. But to practice your craft you need to keep the lights on, and you need your financial house in order. The more attention you pay to this stuff at the right time, the less of your overall day you’ll spend worrying and fretting about it. Don’t worry about money, deal with money.
Design Is a Job (New York: A Book Apart, 2012), 44.
My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.
“Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,”The New York Times, August 14, 2011.
Budgets are moral documents.
Interview with Brian Lehrer, Cooper Union, New York City, April 27, 2011.
You see, if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do, kid… Money’s the cheapest thing. Liberty, freedom is the most expensive.
“Hunting Birds of Paradise,” by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, April 5, 2011.
Ultimately, what we want our money to be is an energy source. It should help us get somewhere or do something.
“Why a Budget Is Like a Diet — Ineffective,” by Tara Seigel Bernard, The New York Times, December 31, 2010.
I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger to-day.
Thimble Theatre (comic strip) created by cartoonist E. C. Segar, March 20, 1932. J. Wellington Wimpy, known as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the comic strip Popeye, originally called Thimble Theatre. According to The Yale Book of Quotations, an earlier version of this line (“Cook me up a hamburger. I’ll pay you Thursday.”) appeared in the strip on June 21, 1931.