Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
Respectability, n. The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
When you hide behind a veil of your financial business you never know who you're influencing, where your priorities lie. But I think it's important that the American people have some glimpse or some understanding of the financial standing of their commander-In-chief.
A man's word Is believed just to the extent of the wealth in his coffers stored.
Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.
Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.
I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.
In America, what you've accomplished financially is a measurement, whether you like it or not.
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.
We must continue to insist to our better off brothers and sisters that they are in the same racial boat as their less better off kin. Even elevated class status and superior financial standing cannot ward off the effects and consequences of racism.
It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
An institution that borrows on a non-prioritized basis would never contemplate borrowing on a prioritized basis. Doing so would undermine its standing in the bond market and suggest that it is not worthy of its strong credit rating. This type of self-imposed downgrade would materially affect its financial prospects.
Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone: but what we have requires no proof.
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
I worry that every time I lay down my credit card of choice, it says something about me. About my social standing or how I see myself. The very colour of your card is an indication of where you stand in the wealth stakes.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.
