“Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.”
Source: Goldfinger
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English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer 1908–1964Related quotes
“Time is the one thing money can’t buy.”
Charles Stross The Laundry Files
Source: The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012), Chapter 3, “Big Tent” (p. 44)
“A fool and his money is one big party.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor
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Theognis of Megara (-570–-485 BC) Greek lyric poet active in approximately the sixth century BC
πολλοί τοι πλουτοῦσι κακοί, ἀγαθοὶ δὲ πένονται:
ἀλλ᾽ ἡμεῖς τούτοις οὐ διαμειψόμεθα
τῆς ἀρετῆς τὸν πλοῦτον, ἐπεὶ τὸ μὲν ἔμπεδον αἰεί,
χρήματα δ᾽ ἀνθρώπων ἄλλοτε ἄλλος ἔχει.
Source: Elegies, Lines 315-318, also attributed to Solon
“There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.”
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 4; a record of a remark by Orwell's fellow tramp Boris
“The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.”
Gerry Spence (1929) American lawyer
Source: Give Me Liberty! (1998), Ch. 17 : Success Redefined, p. 197