On Money
Milton Friedman, free-market economist and Nobel laureate:
“Nobody spends someone else’s money as wisely as he spends his own.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet:
“Money often costs too much.”
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd American president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence:
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
James Taylor, singer-songwriter and guitarist:
“Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.”
Warren Buffett, master investor, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and second wealthiest person in the world:
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”