Money Quotes

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
– Mike Gill
Make a memory with your children,
Spend some time to show you care;
Toys and trinkets can't replace those
Precious moments that you share.
Money doesn't buy real pleasure,
It doesn't matter where you live;
Children need your own attention,
Something only you can give.
Childhood's days pass all too quickly,
Happy memories all too few;
Plan to do that special something,
Take the time to go or do.
Make a memory with your children,
Take the time in busy days;
Have some fun while they are growing,
Show your love in gentle ways.
– Elaine Hardt
There is but one rule of conduct for a man ­ to do the right thing. The cost may be dear in money, in friends, in influence, in labor, in a prolonged and painful sacrifice, but the cost not to do right is far more dear: You pay in the integrity of your manhood, in your honor, in strength of character; and, for a timely gain, you barter the infinite.
– Archer G. Jones
But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
– William H. Murray
I'm tired of hearing about money money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
– Shaquille O'Neal
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.
– George Bernard Shaw
Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
– Roger Starr
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
– Igor Stravinski
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company ...a church ...a home.The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past ...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.
– Charles Swindoll
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
– Kurt Herbert Alder
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
– Hobart Brown
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
– Bette Davis
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
– Alexandre Dumas
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
– Bob Dylan
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
– Evan Esar
What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever. A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree.
– Diane Frolov and Robin Green
Money is the sinew of love as well as war.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
– Ken Hakuta
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
– Horace
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
– Kin Hubbard
Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
– Rebecca Johnson
I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
– Angelina Jolie
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
– Anna Lappe
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
– Groucho Marx
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
– W. Somerset Maugham
A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
– Sir Thomas More
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.
– Suze Orman
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
– Dorothy Parker
What power has law where only money rules.
– Gaius Petronius
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
– William Lyon Phelps
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
– Publilius Syrus
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
– David Richerby
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
– Robert W. Sarnoff
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.
– Socrates
Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
– Sophocles
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
– Christina Stead
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
– Sir Henry Taylor
There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know? They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go? ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.
– Rogers Turrentine
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
– Unknown
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
– Unknown
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
– Voltaire
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
– Izaak Walton
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
– John Wanamaker
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
– Katharine Whitehorn
Beauty is power like money is power like a gun is power.
– Chuck Palahniuk
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
– Nathan Fillion
You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
– Barbara Corcoran
You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?
– Jay-Z
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
– J. K. Rowling
You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.
– Eric Cantor
You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
– Chad Harbach
You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.
– Haruki Murakami
You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
– Dolly Parton
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
– Ted Allen
You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money, and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.
– Sam Mendes
You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
– Vera Farmiga
You don't have a lot of time you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
– Margot Kidder
You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.
– Mehmet Oz
You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.
– Philip Kaufman
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
– will.i.am
You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
– Barack Obama
You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
– Sergey Brin
Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.
– Shahrukh Khan
Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.
– Andre Dubus III
Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.
– Liz Phair
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
– David Guterson
Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
– Ziyi Zhang
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
– Satchel Paige
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
– Candace Bushnell
With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
– Brad Delson
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
– Angela Merkel
White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
– Idris Elba
While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.
– Russell Crowe
Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.
– Zach Galifianakis
Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
– Gary Ackerman
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
– Ryan Giggs
Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
– William J. Clinton
When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.
– Alexis Arguello
When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
– Paul McCartney
When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.
– Richard Pryor
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
– Michelle Bachelet
When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.
– Ellen Barkin
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
– Ron Paul
When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.
– Jerry Saltz
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
– Jerry Saltz
When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
– Jackie Chan
When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.
– Lauryn Hill
When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.
– Paul Ryan
When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
– Ice Cube
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
– Willie Mays
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
– Russell Brand
When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
– Billy Joel
When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.
– David Steinberg
When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
– Buck Baker
When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.
– Robin Wright Penn
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
– Wayne Dyer
When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.
– Paul Theroux
What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.
– Rick Scott