Ihara Saikaku Quotes

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.

If you play professionally, you can expect to go broke at some point.

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.

I just really think every job I do, I get this gypsy attitude to money.

When we're in a peak, we make a ton of money, and as soon as we make a ton of money, we're desperately looking for a way to spend it. And we diversify into areas that, frankly, we don't know how to run very well.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Consider using one bank for all your banking needs and one brokerage firm for all your investments.

I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

I've learnt that money comes very quickly, but it leaves even quicker.

A club like ours loses £8-10m every year to be competitive, and nobody wants to keep a business that is losing money every year.

You just have to keep at it and budget yourself; be prudent. It's art, so you really don't go into it to make a zillion dollars, but there's definitely bills to pay, and I want everyone in the band to have a salary and whatever they need.

Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.

There is a time to make money and a time to not lose money.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

When I had money, I felt pressure, whether it was to invest it or do good with it, and I couldn't let it fizzle out. It was like I needed to prove to myself that I could look after it, only I did the opposite, but you have to take a chance in life.

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it.

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.