Money Quotes

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
– Bill Gates
If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
– J. Paul Getty
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
– J. Paul Getty
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
– J. Paul Getty
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
– Roland Gift
The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
– Newt Gingrich
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
– Jean-Luc Godard
Spare no expense to save money on this one.
– Samuel Goldwyn
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
– Billy Graham
Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
– Robert Graves
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
– Horace Greeley
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it, the money will come.
– Greer Garson
Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
– David Geffen
Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.
– Phyllis George
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
– Arthur Godfrey
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
– Sydney J. Harris
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well.
– Oliver Herford
Money without brains is always dangerous.
– Napoleon Hill
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
– Bob Hope
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
– Horace
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
– Elbert Hubbard
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
– Kin Hubbard
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
– Kin Hubbard
When a fellow says, It ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
– Kin Hubbard
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
– Kay Hutchison
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
– William Randolph Hearst
I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.
– Harry Houdini
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
– Frank McKinney Hubbard
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
– George M. Humphrey
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
– Billy Idol
It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
– Mahalia Jackson
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
– Jackie Kennedy
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
– Rose Kennedy
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
– Rose Kennedy
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
– John Maynard Keynes
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
– John Maynard Keynes
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
– Alan King
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.
– Ray Kroc
Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
– Robert Kiyosaki
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.
– Robert Kiyosaki
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
– Louis L'Amour
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
– Ann Landers
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
– David Herbert Lawrence
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
– Abraham Lincoln
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
– Clare Boothe Luce
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
– Clare Boothe Luce
But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.
– Ludacris
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
– George Horace Lorimer
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
– Horace Mann
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
– Orison Swett Marden
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
– Steve Martin
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
– Karl Marx
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
– W. Somerset Maugham
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
– Mitch McConnell
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
– H. L. Mencken
Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.
– Dennis Miller
Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
– Dennis Miller
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
– Spike Milligan
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
– A. A. Milne
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
– Margaret Mitchell
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
– Marilyn Monroe
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
– George Leigh Mallory
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
– Dan Millman
People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
– Bob Nelson
My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.
– Stevie Nicks
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
– P. J. O'Rourke
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
– Barack Obama
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
– Barack Obama
After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.
– Aristotle Onassis
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
– Emo Philips
The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
– Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
– Ayn Rand
Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.
– Ronald Reagan
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
– Ronald Reagan
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
– Jules Renard
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.
– John D. Rockefeller
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
– John D. Rockefeller
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
– John D. Rockefeller
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
– Will Rogers
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
– Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
– Will Rogers
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
– Will Rogers
Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
– Jim Rohn
Money is usually attracted, not pursued.
– Jim Rohn
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
– David Lee Roth
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
A fool and her money are soon courted.
– Helen Rowland
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
– Helen Rowland
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
– John Ruskin
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
– Simon Raven
Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.
– James Taylor