Money Quotes

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

One of the greatest disservices you can do to a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.

Time is money.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

He is richest who is content with the least.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.

If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.

It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they'd say, 'We'll let you know.'"

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Enjoy your job, make lots of money, work within the law. Choose any two.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I paid too much for it, but it's worth it.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.