5 Robert A. Heinlein Quotes on Money

Robert A. Heinlein quotes on money

41. $100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 - by which time it will be worth nothing.

105. Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well.

106. Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

119. People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

132. The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it's lovely work if you can stomach it.