Doug Ford and other top money-related quotes
Maybe it’s the conservative in me, but this quote from Doug Ford yesterday cracked me up.
Ford, the brother of bloated, right-wing Toronto mayor Rob Ford, was being confronted and berated by an Ontario Coalition Against Poverty protestor in the Big Smoke when he quipped, “Get a job.”
I dunno. I guess it’s a simple comeback, but I thought it was just superb. Ford denied the jab, of course, but 680 News caught it on tape (listen here). And, on the Friday before a weekend, Dougie Ford’s Dangerfield-like sting gives us a great chance to count down other great money-related quotes.
Any list like this should start, and maybe end, with Gordon Gekko’s omnipresent “Greed ... is good,” but it’s hardly the only financial line that endures.
A few of the other tops, in honour of Toronto’s mayor’s brother:
1) “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.” – Woody Allen
2) “Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.” – James Arthur Baldwin
3) “What’s a soup kitchen?” – Paris Hilton
4) “Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.” – Robin Williams
5) “I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.” – David Lee Roth
6) “The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money.” – Unnamed IRS auditor
7) “I was so poor growing up … if I wasn’t a boy … I’d have (had) nothing to play with.” – Rodney Dangerfield
8) “Money is the best deodorant.” – Elizabeth Taylor
And, finally, Yogi Berra:
9) “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.”
What’s your favourite money-related quote or piece of advice?
By Jason Buckland, MSN Money
Posted by: Tanya | Feb 12, 2022 9:17:52 PM
"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" AKA "Let them eat cake"
In Canada just like Egypt anyone can:
“Get a job" - start a family - buy a house - take yearly two week vacations and retire at 65 worry free.
Posted by: Western Guy | Feb 14, 2022 2:55:42 PM
Ummmm, I don't really see an issue here.
If I was "berated" by an anti-poverty protester I too would likely think telling them to get a job would be a resounding solution.
Canada has lots of jobs. Its just most of the aren't white collar jobs. The company I work for right now is trying to hire 15 more people. We can't find them. The job pays really well. The issue is the conditions. You have to work in the middle of nowhere up north for a month at a time outside in the winter. All kinds of opportunity but there are hardly any takers.
Canada is a land of opportunity. Tanya seems kind of jaded comparing Canada to Egypt. Thats a laugh. In Egypt they have 40 million people (more than the population of Canada) that live on less than $2 a day. Government employees (teachers, transit workers etc) make $80 - $100 a month. On those amounts it would be tough to get ahead. Canada isn't like that at all.
In Canada making enough to afford a house is easy if you aren't lazy or stupid. If you are either of those then sorry, you are out of luck (millions of Canadians have managed this). Starting a family takes a little more planning but again its pretty easy (again millions of Canadians manage this on a daily basis). Lastly retirement again takes planning and some sacrifice. No, not all of us can drive a ferrari but all of us can easily be comfortable with some work.
Posted by: SP | Feb 14, 2022 6:16:33 PM
I've always liked "Get your money for nothing, get your chicks for free"
But I digress in this 0% prime market :-)
Slight correction for the Western Guy, Egypt's population is 80 Million, now for Averages:
Vancouver income $68K Metro Vancouver homes now almost $663000
Edmonton AB income $87K Edmonton House property $375,000 With the leverage required the only people buying these on average incomes without family help are the stupid.
When Clinton was in power oil was in the teens and the oil patch was a ghost town prime was around 8% now it's close to 0%. Now when the bulk of the Chinese start to retire and want their money back what do you think prime will be? What do you think oil will be? and more importantly will there be any more girls living out near the oil patch than there is now? I couldn't find any women out there that would have ever interested me when I've visited, perhaps it's changed in the past couple months?
I am only mentioning this because some people think only of money, themselves and now (Doug Ford for example). Oddly enough this is a poor way to get dates, build stable communities or foster tolerance. Though I'm biased, having a spouse, children and peace.
Posted by: Western Guy | Feb 14, 2022 11:08:00 PM
Sorry SP but you made a false assumption of my discussion.
I never said Egypt had a poplation 40 million. I said 40 million Egyptions lived on less than $2 a day. The current news quote is that 50% of egypt lives on less than $2 a day. 80 million X 50%. Get it? Now don't you feel a little foolish?
Secondly if you already have a spouse why are you looking for girls that are interested in you? In actuality most oilpatch towns have more women then men as the men are usually in the field leaving a disportionate amount of women in the towns at any one time.
Third. There will always be people to tell me real estate isn't worth what people are paying for it. More often than not over the last 50 years real estate has risen in value so they have typically been wrong. In the last 5 years I have turned nothing into a healthy something through real estate investment. 87K incomes for a average house at 335K sounds very reasonable. That means a cheap house is probably 250K (which I have seen in Edmonton and they are livable). Figure a 15 year mortgage (which is affordable) at 3.25% locked in and in 15 years you are set for life. Vancouver is a little more expense. Therefore move out of Vancouver. This seems kinda easy. Housing prices are even easier to afford in Saskatoon and Winnipeg. Congrats!
Those poor guys in Egypt have trouble affording FOOD. In Canada anybody of sound mind can earn enough for food. Personally if I take my monthly food bill and divide it by my wage it is under 5 hours a month that I work for my food (and I eat out often). People that compare the situations in Canada and Egypt are nuts.
Posted by: SP | Feb 15, 2022 10:55:38 PM
Feel foolish? Nothing of the sort, I was pointing out that Egypt has 80 Million people (and I will accept your point that 40 Million live on less than $2/day). Perhaps what I should have made explicit is that Egypt's Gini index score of 34.4 (distribution of family income) is only 10 positions below Canada's which really isn't that far away at 32.1 (which is sort of my point that Canada is similar in ways to Egypt). Egypt also exports resources like Canada and has 1.656 trillion cu m of Natural Gas & 4.3 billion bbl of oil... sells rice, corn, wheat, beans, fruits, vegetables; cattle, water sheep (looking less & less like Liechtenstein and more & more like Canada).
Second point, I have hopes that my son would have a range of women to consider for marriage and I have been to Alberta towns and if that is a disportionate amount of women ...
Third point annual performance of homes since 1890 is 0.59% (real return) and 1.24% (real return) since 1950 (investingintelligently com) has some info, many other places have more detailed info which should help dispel the notion that buying one house now will ever have you 'set for life'.
As for your food budget, wow... You either have a fantastic income or are very frugal with your food. Getting a meal for the family somewhere decent like Buchanan's & La Dolce Vita in Calgary is north of $400, so for my family eat out 2x a week and buy healthy food using your numbers I'd have to earn either $1,000/hr on the oil patch or radically adjust the quality of food I fed my family.
Poverty based unrest tends not to be based on absolute values but relative values. The educated youth of Cairo without careers or prospects look at the Sawiris family and feel betrayed. The goal here in Canada should be to avoid the large numbers of disenfranchised to look at the wealth of the Thompson, Weston, Irving, Rogers, etc families and feel likewise betrayed. And * this * is why the earlier comparison seemed rational to me. Caring for, and being responsible for the welfare of others changes ones views, so it is possible that my perspective seems totally foreign to you and others.