William J. H. Boetcker Quotes

People think you're crazy if you turn money down... people worship money.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

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

People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

I'm just basically a workaholic.

I'm such a workaholic.

When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.

The whole of this talk about America being more devoted to money than Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, or any other nation is nonsense.

I'm a workaholic and there is no other engagement in my life.

I am a workaholic and can do four things at a time.

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

I don't know when the cult of conspicuous busyness began, but it has swept up almost all the upwardly mobile, professional women I know. Already, it is getting hard to recall the days when, for example, 'Let's have lunch' meant something other than 'I've got more important things to do than talk to you right now.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

The trouble with the new world we have watched being created over the past decade is that it sees no further than money. People have always been obsessed with money, of course - greed is as old as history. But when the institutions that govern all our lives forget there was ever anything else, then it gets dangerous.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those who have always had money . . . be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.

Get money first; virtue comes after.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

When you're working and you're busy and you're successful, no matter what, something suffers, whether it's your relationship with your mother, your relationship with your whole family. Certain things suffer and take the back burner, not because they're on the back burner in your heart but because the world just moves so quickly. A lot of people, when they're chasing their dreams, they have to leave people they love.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

I like the pace of my world. It's busy, but for me, the less I do the lazier I get.