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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.  That's almost $7.00 in dog money.  ~Joe Weinstein


The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.  ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann


I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.  ~Bob Thaves, "Frank & Ernest"


People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.  ~Robert Half


My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.  ~Errol Flynn


Inflation hasn't ruined everything.  A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.  ~A.A. Latimer


People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.  ~Doug Larson


When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?  ~Chuck Palahniuk


It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.  ~Groucho Marx


If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.  ~Earl Wilson


The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.  ~M.W. Harrison


October:  This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.  The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.  ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894


If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.  ~George Gobel


In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.  ~Author Unknown


Inflation is taxation without legislation.  ~Milton Friedman


When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.  ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959


There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.  ~Author Unknown


The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.  ~Mad Magazine


The only man who sticks closer to you in adversity than a friend is a creditor.  ~Author Unknown


Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
~Thomas Tusser


Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.  ~Dutch Proverb


Debt is the worst poverty.  ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732


Today, there are three kinds of people:  the have's, the have-not's, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have's.  ~Earl Wilson


When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.  ~Bill Balance


Credit buying is much like being drunk.  The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift.... The hangover comes the day after.  ~Joyce Brothers


Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm.  ~Gina Rothfels


There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp


We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.  ~Thomas Fuller


Money doesn't talk, it swears.  ~Bob Dylan


If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.  ~Kelvin Throop


Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.  ~Herbert Hoover, attributed


A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes.  So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning:  We're government workers.  ~Jay Leno


Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.  ~Werner Finck


For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.  ~Robert Quillen


Every tomorrow has two handles.  We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.  ~Author Unknown


The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.  ~Peter Lynch


Goodness is the only investment that never fails.  ~Henry David Thoreau


We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.  ~The Houghton Line, November 1965


George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.  ~Author Unknown


Who is rich?  He who rejoices in his portion.  ~The Talmud


Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today.  ~Francis H. Sisson


He who does not economize will have to agonize.  ~Confucius


It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.  ~Harry S. Truman


[O]f all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.  ~Jane Addams, 1910


If things go wrong, don't go with them.  ~Roger Babson


A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.  ~George Herbert


Worry bankrupts the spirit.  ~Berri Clove


The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.  ~Paul Heyne


Politicians say they're beefing up our economy.  Most don't know beef from pork.  ~Harold Lowman


The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:  If it moves, tax it.  If it keeps moving, regulate it.  And if it stops moving, subsidize it.  ~Ronald Reagan


Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.  ~John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957


I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.  ~Amory Lovins


If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.  ~George Bernard Shaw


If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.  ~Arthur H. Motley


They talk about the economy this year.  Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation.  Altogether, I'm in a depression.  ~Rick Majerus


I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.  ~Arthur Godfrey


Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?  ~Peg Bracken


We have long had death and taxes as the two standards of inevitability.  But there are those who believe that death is the preferable of the two.  "At least," as one man said, "there's one advantage about death; it doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." ~Erwin N. Griswold


Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant:  animals have instincts, we have taxes.  ~Erving Goffman


A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.  ~Author Unknown


Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us.  We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.  ~Benjamin Franklin


The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.  ~Frank Hubbard


We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.  ~Gloria Steinem


Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.  ~Author Unknown


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.  ~Sam Ewing


A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.  ~Bob Hope


O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
~Lord Byron


Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.  ~Woody Allen


It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.  ~Albert Camus


I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.  ~Ron Kittle, 1987


We live by the Golden Rule.  Those who have the gold make the rules.  ~Buzzie Bavasi


I am having an out of money experience.  ~Author Unknown


Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.  ~Zig Ziglar


I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did:  The only problems that money can solve are money problems.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.  ~Max Beerbohm, "Hosts and Guests," 1918


We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.  ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923


A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.  ~Yogi Berra


That money talks
I'll not deny,
I heard it once:
It said, "Goodbye."
~Richard Armour


We ought to change the legend on our money from "In God We Trust" to "In Money We Trust."  Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.  ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963


My poverty is not complete:  it lacks me.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.  ~Lowell


Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  ~Author Unknown


Food.  Water.  Shelter.  Air.  Sleep.  Societal inflation has expanded need into greed.  Suddenly the basic survival needs also include a cell phone, cable TV, and French manicured fingernails.... We've become the absolute biggest whiners of all human history with the absolute smallest justification for whining.  ~Charlie Diekatze


So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.  ~Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879


Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.  ~Aldous Huxley, Island


The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.  ~Alan Gregg


The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.  ~Theodore Roosevelt


Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious.  We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.  ~Thomas Szasz


I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.  ~Agatha Christie


Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.  Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.  ~Jay Leno


Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.  ~Norman Cousins


Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.  ~Will Rogers


There are plenty of ways to get ahead.  The first is so basic I'm almost embarrassed to say it:  spend less than you earn.  ~Paul Clitheroe


No man's credit is as good as his money.  ~E.W. Howe, Sinner Sermons


Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?  ~Kin Hubbard


To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved


Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.  ~German Proverb


He who fears something gives it power over him.  ~Moorish Proverb


He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.  ~French Proverb


This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping $44.34.  Wow, it seems shocking that a product of finite supply gets more expensive the more we use it.  Now the terror alert means higher oil prices, which oddly enough means higher profits for oil companies giving them more money to give to politicians whose policies may favor the oil companies such as raising the terror alert level.  As Simba once told us: "It's the circle of life."  ~Jon Stewart


Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.  ~Richard Lamm


When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.  ~George Pataki


Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith


Here is my first principle of foreign policy:  good government at home.  ~William Ewart Gladstone


When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.  ~Ivy Baker Priest


Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.  ~Victor Hugo


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.  ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852


Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.  ~Goethe


Luxury:  The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.  ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923


Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.  ~Benjamin Franklin


Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.  ~Orson Scott Card


Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.  ~Leo Buscaglia


Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.  ~Author Unknown

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