Money Quotes

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
– Henrik Ibsen
I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.
– Vanilla Ice
It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
– Vanilla Ice
I am old enough to remember when the University of Hawaii at Hilo was founded in 1947, amidst intense political pressure from the Hawaii Territorial Legislature. At the time, there was little money, and the enthusiasm was limited to those on this island.
– Daniel Inouye
Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.
– Kathy Ireland
There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.
– Amy Irving
I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.
– Johnny Isakson
I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.
– Molly Ivins
It's so much fun that the money is just icing on the cake. There seems to be a lot of icing.
– Ken Jennings
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery.
– Beverly Johnson
The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
– Joseph French Johnson
I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse.
– Clinton Jones
I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth.
– Paula Jones
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
– Jenny Joseph
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.
– Benjamin Jowett
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
– Jackie Kennedy
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
– Joseph P. Kennedy
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
– Jean Kerr
We need a commander in chief and a vice president who puts the interests of our troops and our taxpayers ahead of their big money friends.
– John F. Kerry
The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.
– Alan Keyes
I work like a retailer. I sell my services, take my money and keep it in the bank.
– Shahrukh Khan
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
– Victor Kiam
I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.
– William Kidd
As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription.
– Craig Kilborn
In my own experience, in portraying other men and earning my money by pretending to be somebody else, it has stamped me with what the actor is-tribally central and socially peripheral.
– Ben Kingsley
Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are really part of a very big advertising program, and the fact that they make so much money is because the markets have dictated that they get that money, and the fact that they endorse our products allows us to sell more products and create more jobs.
– Philip Knight
I'm healthy, I've got a wonderful wife, happy kids, money in the bank. I'm one of the luckiest guys in the world.
– Ted Knight
I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
– Robby Krieger
We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.
– Robby Krieger
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
– Ray Kroc
Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
– Robert Kiyosaki
You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy.
– Heidi Klum
Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.
– Fletcher Knebel
At first, we couldn't be establishment, because we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.
– Phil Knight
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.
– Alexandra Kosteniuk
My job is to make people money. If I don't include every factor that moves a stock-market psychology included-then I'm not doing my job.
– Thomas Kurlak
This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region.... He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.
– Osama bin Laden
''If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; ... it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.
– Edwin Land
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
– Ann Landers
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
– Stephen B. Leacock
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.
– Fran Lebowitz
That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
– Bill Lee
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
– Jack Lemmon
According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it.
– Jay Leno
Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.
– Jay Leno
Kerry has already begun his search for a running mate. They say that because John Edwards still has $50 million in campaign money, Kerry might pick him. Pick him? Hey, for $50 million, Kerry will marry him.
– Jay Leno
It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.
– Lisa Leslie
I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
– Joe E. Lewis
It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
– Joe E. Lewis
Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.
– Joe E. Lewis
There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
– Joe E. Lewis
When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.
– Jerry Lee Lewis
It's a patently unfair game that $40 million has to play against $120 million. It just violates all of our notions of fairness that money is one of the determining factors in the outcome of a sporting contest.
– Michael Lewis
The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.
– Joseph Lieberman
We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.
– Joseph Lieberman
You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96.
– Joseph Lieberman
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
– Bob Lilly
I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.
– Blanche Lincoln
I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
– Joe Louis
Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
– Martin Luther
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
– Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
– Gary Larson
Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money.
– Owen Laughlin
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
– Lucy Lawless
A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our legal business.
– Paul Laxalt
Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master... Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware.
– Mary Elizabeth Lease
Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
– Michael Leboeuf
Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
– Leon Lederman
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
– Greg LeMond
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
– Michael Lesy
I mean, Jim's Dad is the character - you're not just laughing at what he's saying, you're laughing at who he is... On SCTV , we used to say, 'If somebody were to look at these scripts, they would wonder, who's investing money in putting this on?' Because you can't find a joke, you can't find, honestly, a funny line.
– Eugene Levy
Like it or not, globalization is here - in some ways. It isn't a global village, nothing cozy and not that much communal about it. But things, people and money, especially money, do move around as never before, and more and more barriers are breached. The porousness of societies isn't even, but it won't be stopped.
– Flora Lewis
If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.
– Lennox Lewis
My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
– Wendy Liebman
Gum-chewing Americans, loaded with money and ignorant of history, might succeed in appropriating the country as the 51st state or the United Kingdom Theme Park Inc.
– Steve Lohr
There may be economic merits to setting up a casino in Singapore. But the social impact is not negligible. By making gaming more accessible and even glamorous, it could encourage more gambling and increase the risk of gaming addiction. A casino could also lead to undesirable activities like money laundering, illegal money lending and organised crime.
– Lee Hsien Loong
Money cannot buy happiness.
– Annni-Frid Lyngstad
There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
– Tobey Maguire
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
– Norman Mailer
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
– David Mamet
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
– Nelson Mandela
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
– Orison Swett Marden
I'm in a unique position to help others. I don't do more than anyone else does but, through people and corporations I'm involved with, I can help raise a lot of money. That's one of the reasons we started the foundation, as a vehicle through which we could channel that money to worthwhile causes.
– Dan Marino
I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
– Roger Maris
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
– Roger Maris
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.
– John McCarthy
You have no business being sick-every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get up and go to work and earn some money and help send the gospel out! Amen!
– Aimee Semple McPherson
Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
– Karl A. Menninger
I believe there is money that needs to be spent in Iraq but not only our money. I think there needs to be international money. We had a coalition of the willing. Now we need a coalition of the wallet. Let them step to the plate to share the financial responsibility to create stability and a democracy in Iraq.
– Barbara Mikulski
An organization that is strong and stable and is ready to commit time, money, and patience will be more apt to reap rewards than the quick-hitting opportunist.
– Richard Miller
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
– Glenn Miller
Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
– C. Wright Mills
This independent report clearly indicates that while we may differ among ourselves in government about what to spend money on, we have one of the most reliable and non-political processes for agreeing on how much money there is. We don't play games with the numbers.
– Ruth Ann Minner
I'm investing in a company that has patented wallet technology that will deodorize currency. That way people won't have to deal with money that smells funny.
– Moby
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.
– Alfred Molina
Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The old saying that capital is the most timid thing in the world and does not like pioneering is strongly emphasized by such instances as this, and no doubt in 1864 the enormous grants of free land made by Congress did not appear especially attractive to the man who had money to invest.
– John Moody
A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some.
– Joe Moore