It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

George Horace Lorimer
About This Quote

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy. It’s also good to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. When we think we have what we want, we may be too happy and willing to take risks that we shouldn’t. We should always pause before making a decision and make sure that we’re making the best choice.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war! - Jonathan Safran Foer

  2. You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't. - Ann Herendeen

  3. I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me. - Hunter S. Thompson

  4. God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”) - Richard Matheson

  5. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Anonymous

More Quotes By George Horace Lorimer
  1. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

  2. Of course, clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a pure heart, but it seldom covers a clean...

  3. I want to say right here that the easiest way in the world to make enemies is to hire friends.

  4. There’s no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that he’s chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

  5. It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow.

Related Topics