The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
Money is power.
Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.
But see Savile, below
… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money
To a great extent, the same is true in our modern world.
Very few wars have been won by mere numbers alone. Quality, willpower, geographical advantages, natural and financial resources, the command of the sea, and above all a cause that rouses the spontaneous surgings of the human spirit…
Every man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.
Money is the only Monarch.
I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.
Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.
Wealth is the means and people are the ends.
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
Throwing money after security turns out to be a classic example of the law of diminishing marginal utility.
Action must begin in the developing world itself. These countries do not lack financial resources. What they lack is political courage. We need to ask the leaders of the Third World, and ask them bluntly, why they insist on spending $130 billion each year on the military when even a quarter of this expenditure can finance their entire essential social agenda. And we must ask them why they insist on having six soldiers for every one doctor when their people are dying of ordinary diseases, from internal disintegration, not from external aggression, from many threats to human security, not any threats to territorial security.
The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.
If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Money has never won anything. You can spend as much as you want, but you must build a team first.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.
I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.
Supplements are popular. They're good. They're a fast-growing market. I use it to fund the operation. Other revolutionaries rob banks and kidnap people, O.K.? I don't do that.
If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams.
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.