Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

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

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

I could never gamble on stocks and shares because I saw my father get hurt that way - he lost quite a lot of money when the stock market collapsed in 2001.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.

One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

Whoever gambles with the dollar, loses

I am not in Wall Street for my health.