George Raft Quotes

I spend my money like I don't have anything.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Money... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse - very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

I wouldn't say I'm a spender in the sense that I'm going out on huge spending sprees. However, to be able to function at the top of your game on the professional tennis circuit often requires an element of frequent spending.

Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to.

Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.

As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents.

It's staggering how many players, even with the sums of money they make, don't do a great job of saving it.

Those who earn money know best how to spend it.

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

Poor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.

When we have money, we start making mistakes.