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Money Quotes


Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
– Will Rogers
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
– Lord Acton
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
– Douglas Adams
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
– Christina Aguilera
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
– Madeleine Albright
Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.
– Louisa May Alcott
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
– James Allen
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
– Woody Allen
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
– Susan B. Anthony
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
– Mary Kay Ash
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
– Jane Austen
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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 A. Baldwin
It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
– Dave Barry
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
– John Barrymore
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
– Jean Baudrillard
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
– Henry Ward Beecher
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
– Brendan Behan
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
– Hilaire Belloc
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
– Josh Billings
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
– Josh Billings
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
– Josh Billings
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
– Josh Billings
I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
– Larry Bird
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
– William Blake
The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
– Humphrey Bogart
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
– Elayne Boosler
I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.
– Marlon Brando
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
– Richard Branson
I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.
– Eva Braun
If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
– Albert Brooks
Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!
– Craig Bruce
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
– William F. Buckley, Jr.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
– Warren Buffett
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
– Warren Buffett
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
– Warren Buffett
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
– George Burns
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
– George Burns
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
– William S. Burroughs
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
– Samuel Butler
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
– Samuel Butler
Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
– Michael Badnarik
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
– P. T. Barnum
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
– Helen Gurley Brown
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
– Doyle Brunson
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
– James Buchan
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
– Eric Butterworth
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
– Albert Camus
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
– Andrew Carnegie
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
– Johnny Carson
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
– Fidel Castro
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
– Coco Chanel
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
– Anton Chekhov
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.
– Frank A. Clark
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.
– Quentin Crisp
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
– Davy Crockett
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
– Davy Crockett
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
– Curtis Carlson
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
– Mason Cooley
Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
– Salvador Dali
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
– Clarence Day
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
– Johnny Depp
No man's credit is as good as his money.
– John Dewey
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
– Walt Disney
Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
– Peter F. Drucker
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
– John Dryden
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
– Will Durant
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
– Andrea Dworkin
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
– Bob Dylan
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
– Ray Davies
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
– Bo Derek
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
– Larry Ellison
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money often costs too much.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
– Desiderius Erasmus
Wealth flows from energy and ideas.
– William Feather
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
– Henry Fielding
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
– W. C. Fields
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
– W. C. Fields
It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
– W. C. Fields
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
– Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
– Henry Ford
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
– Henry Ford
Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
– Henry Ford
Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
– Henry Ford
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
– Benjamin Franklin
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
– Benjamin Franklin
Remember that credit is money.
– Benjamin Franklin
The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.
– Benjamin Franklin
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
– Robert Frost
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
– Robert Fulghum
A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
– Al Franken
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
– Judy Garland