Work & Money Sayings

A man is born to work, to suffer and to fight; he who doesn't, must perish.

We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

My equilibrium has been broken by a major piece of decorative work that has lasted three years.

Today I want to start working again in earnest – I'm looking forward to it because doing nothing does become rather boring after a while.

We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.

Money—or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas—may worry me, but it does not excite me.

All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.