Lotteries are a tax on ignorance
Panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been previously destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.
I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
Everywhere you look in Washington, you can find examples of financial mismanagement.
In two years, I spent all my money on cars, watches, boots, discos, restaurants, and friends who, in reality, were not friends at all. For a boy like me, who grew up in a poor neighbourhood and without money, it was dangerous.
When I like something, I wear it into the ground, then really regret it.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.
President George W. Bush inherited the strongest economy and the largest surplus ever in American history. He has blown both of them. I thought that one of the things he would be good at is inheriting but he wasn’t able to even do that well.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
This is the great crisis in football now. It's not just Rangers; it's a lot of clubs. Big clubs always create more debt despite the huge income they have. It's almost an achievement, isn't it? They make so much money, and yet, still, their debts rise and rise and rise. How does that happen? It's absurd.
It is safe to say that when people are short on cash, they might be less productive at work, be worse parents, and have less self-control.
David Dinkins was a financial disaster personally - and as an administrator. That is what the record shows.
Expenditures have gone rampant in Puerto Rico: lack of accountability - total lack of accountability.
A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.
