Cash famous quotes
05-15-2025
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
-- Akio Morita -
I did it for the love of cash your honer, traffickin' cross the verrazano, coke dealin marijuana
-- Al Capone -
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
-- Alan Alda -
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
-- Alan Greenspan -
But it was great, we sit in the same dressing room where, like, Johnny Cash sat and Willie Nelson and all those guys. That was in itself something amazing - I was on the same space these guys stood on, ya know?
-- Alan Vega -
It's amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language.
-- Aravind Adiga -
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.
-- Avi Rubin -
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
-- Barbara Mandrell -
One more thing. I sold the mustang. Too conspicuous. Don't get too excited, but I bought you a little something with the extra cash. I heard you've had your eye on a Volkswagen. The owner is dropping it by tomorrow. I paid for a full tank of gas, so make sure she delivers.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Scott: Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Nora: Are you trying to appeal to my conscience? Scott: How can you turn down a once-in-a-lifetime chance to drive the 'Stang? Nora: How about you sell me the 'Stang for thirty dollars? I can even pay cash. Scott: Drunk, but not that drunk, Grey.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.
-- Ben Feldman -
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
-- Ben Feldman -
Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.
-- Ben Rattray -
I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
-- Bernie Ecclestone -
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
-- Bethany McLean -
Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.
-- Bill Keller -
Funny that all of Nixon's crimes - anonymous campaign cash, wiretapping, undeclared wars - are all legal now. Discuss.
-- Bill Maher -
Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
-- C. Wright Mills -
The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.
-- Cass Sunstein -
Working with Woody [Allen] is like an emotional strip club without the cash.
-- Cate Blanchett -
If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
-- Charles Bukowski -
And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?
-- Charles Dickens -
I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,
-- Charles Ponzi -
Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.
-- Claud Cockburn -
I don't like having debts. I don't like buying anything that I can't buy in cash.
-- CM Punk -
Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.
-- Cory Doctorow -
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
-- Dan Ariely -
Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!
-- Danielle LaPorte -
There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
-- Danny Boyle -
The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.
-- David Hawkins -
There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.
-- David Heinemeier Hansson -
The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.
-- David Tang -
If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.
-- Debra Messing -
The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
-- Dianne Wiest -
If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
-- Don King -
What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?
-- Drake -
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
Bombieri's Law: of Finance: Profits are on paper, losses are in cash
-- Enrico Bombieri -
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
-- Esther Meynell -
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits ***** on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
-- Frank Sinatra -
Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!
-- George Lincoln Rockwell -
The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony.
-- Gracie Allen -
Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
It's the Democrats whose position is that the only probÂlem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.
-- Grover Norquist -
You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.
-- Haile Gerima -
It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
-- Hedy Lamarr -
London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
-- Henry James -
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
-- Herman Melville -
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
-- Iris DeMent -
In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.
-- Irving Paul Lazar -
I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
-- Ja Rule -
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
-- Jack London -
Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.
-- Jack Welch -
When its going good, cash in as hard as you can.
-- Jack Weyland -
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
-- James Brown -
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
-- James Buchan -
The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
-- James Chiles -
America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
-- James Howard Kunstler -
If you look at academic studies, you can see that stock prices are most closely correlated with cash flow. It's such a straightforward number. Cash flow is what will drive shareholder returns.
-- Jeff Bezos -
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
-- Jerzy Kosinski -
Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.
-- Jim Cantalupo -
Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.
-- Joel Spolsky -
Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.
-- John Boehner -
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.
-- John Ciardi -
"One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."
-- John Hickenlooper -
What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.
-- John Redwood -
Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
-- Joichi Ito -
We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.
-- Julian Baggini -
I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.
-- June Carter Cash -
One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.
-- Kamla Persad-Bissessar -
Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
-- Karen Mills -
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
-- Karl Marx -
No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.
-- Karl Marx -
Johnny Cash's face belongs on Mount Rushmore...I don't write as much as I did back when I was writing songs every day. I've come to know when I've got a good one, although sometimes it takes the world awhile to catch up with me...If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it.
-- Kris Kristofferson -
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
-- Kris Kristofferson -
A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.
-- Kristen Wiig -
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
-- Larry Flynt -
You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.
-- Lawrence Summers -
A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.
-- Mae West -
Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.
-- Martin Feldstein -
There are two kinds of people, there's those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.
-- Marty Stuart -
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
-- Mary Russell Mitford -
Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want
-- Matt Prior -
Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.
-- Merle Haggard -
I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
-- Mike Tyson -
It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
-- Nas -
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.
-- Neal A. Maxwell -
Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.
-- Neal A. Maxwell
