“The key to eternal happiness is low overhead and no debt.”
Lynda Barry
more infosource: Vice interview by Amy Kellner
category: debt, happiness, money, school of life
medium: Interview
via: Austin Kleon's Tumblr“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.”
Mike Monteiro
more infosource: Design Is a Job (New York: A Book Apart, 2012), 44.
category: business, design, money, school of life
medium: Nonfiction
“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.”
Warren Buffett
more infosource: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” The New York Times, August 14, 2011.
category: congress, government, money, politics
medium: Op-Ed
“Budgets are moral documents.”
Tavis Smiley
more infosource: Interview with Brian Lehrer, Cooper Union, New York City, April 27, 2011.
category: budget, money, morality
medium: Interview
“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.”
Bill Cunningham
more infosource: “Hunting Birds of Paradise,” by Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, April 5, 2011.
medium: Op-Ed
notes: Original source of the quote is the documentary Bill Cunningham New York
“I have a respect for people who do things with their brains and with their hands, who are not afraid of hard physical and mental work. I respect, too, people who are unpretentious yet mannerly, considerate and honest, forthright yet kind and tactful. I dislike display and foolish expenditure in the sense of what Veblen called ‘conspicuous waste,’ that is, spending to impress those who have less, as well as to impress associates. I dislike chi-chi.”
Amy Vanderbilt
more infosource: “Introduction to the Original 1952 Edition,” in The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette: A Guide to Contemporary Living, revised and expanded by Letitia Baldridge (New York: Doubleday, 1978), xvii.
category: character, etiquette, money, respect, work
medium: Etiquette guide
via: Dorothy Ball!“Ultimately, what we want our money to be is an energy source. It should help us get somewhere or do something.”
Amanda Clayman
more infosource: “Why a Budget Is Like a Diet — Ineffective,” by Tara Seigel Bernard, The New York Times, December 31, 2010.
category: energy source, money
medium: newspaper article
“I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger to-day.”
Wimpy
more infosource: 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.
category: credit, debt, deficit, hamburger, loan, money
medium: comic strip
“Hope is not a budgeting strategy.”
Carl Richards
more infosource: “Hope is Not a Budgeting Strategy,” Bucks Blog, The New York Times, November 1, 2010.
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medium: blog
notes: see Behavior Gap, the blog run by Carl Richards, for more info
“As for me, I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.”
Dorothy Parker
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 14.
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category: money, wealth, writer
medium: interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 13 of The Paris Review, 1956.
“I’ve had lots of offers to sell. No way. Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.”
George Steinbrenner
more infosource: October Men, by Roger Kahn (New York: Harcourt, 2004), 21.
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category: baseball, Mona Lisa, money, Yankees
medium: nonfiction
“A fast buck is better than a slow ten.”
Hank Bucci
more infosource: conversation at Hank’s Alley, Tarrytown, New York
category: advice, business, money, sales
medium: conversation
“Savings is really not an amount; it’s an activity.”
Mae Watson Grote
more infosource: quoted in: “Free Advice on Money for Those With Little,” The New York Times, by Fernanda Santos, March 28, 2010.
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category: advice, common sense, finance, good habit, money, saving
medium: newspaper article
notes: this is the company slogan for The Financial Clinic, a nonprofit organization founded by Mae Watson Grote and dedicated to the financial security of working poor people
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