Money Quotes

Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
– Suze Orman
Only the elites despise earning money.
– Newt Gingrich
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
– Tom Felton
One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
– Antonio Banderas
One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
– E. M. Forster
One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.
– Indira Gandhi
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.
– Jerry Saltz
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
– Margaret Young
Of course, I do everything for money.
– Christopher Hitchens
Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.
– Ovid
Now, people when I say that look at me and say, 'What are you talking about, Joe? You're telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?'. The answer is yes, that's what I'm telling you.
– Joe Biden
Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
– Mitt Romney
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
– Jerry Saltz
Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
– Kin Hubbard
Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
– John Grisham
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
– Cesare Pavese
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
– Samuel Johnson
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
– Samuel Johnson
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
– Adam Smith
Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.
– Suze Orman
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
– Thomas Jefferson
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
– Sallust
Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
– Anthony Trollope
My Vegas act is how I make my money.
– Rita Rudner
My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.
– Sinead O'Connor
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.
– Joe Biden
My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
– Marilyn Manson
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.
– Shia LaBeouf
My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
– Christina Aguilera
Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
– Brandon Boyd
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
– George Carlin
Money: power at its most liquid.
– Mason Cooley
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
– Anton Chekhov
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
– Thomas Jefferson
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
– Zig Ziglar
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
– Henry James
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
– Charles MacKay
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
– Josh Billings
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.
– Paul Newman
Money just draws flies.
– Mahalia Jackson
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
– Al Pacino
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
– Kevin Costner
Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
– Jarvis Cocker
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
– Ayn Rand
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
– Samuel Butler
Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.
– Janice Dickinson
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
– Lionel Messi
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
– Federico Fellini
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.
– Gary Ryan Blair
Money is a poor man's credit card.
– Marshall McLuhan
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
– Annie Lennox
Money is a mechanism for control.
– David Korten
Money for me today does not really matter.
– Jackie Chan
Money does not guarantee success.
– Jose Mourinho
Money doesn't buy class.
– Kiana Tom
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
– Samuel Johnson
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
– Will Rogers
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
– Tiger Woods
Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.
– Marco Rubio
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.
– Anna Nicole Smith
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
– Alanis Morissette
Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
– Donald Trump
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.
– Eric Cantor
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.
– Alan Greenspan
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
– David Bailey
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
– Ted Turner
Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again.
– Emma Watson
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
– George Santayana
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
– Adam Smith
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
– Mason Cooley
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
– Iain Duncan Smith
It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.
– Jim Garrison
It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
– Doris Lessing
It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.
– Steve Jobs
It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.
– Merle Haggard
It's all about the money.
– Joseph Jackson
It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
– Antonio Banderas
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
– Harvey Milk
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
– Taylor Caldwell
It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.
– Hillary Clinton
It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.
– Dolly Parton
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
– Ron Livingston
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
– Steve Jobs
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.
– Robert Carlyle
In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.
– Jerry Saltz
In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
– David Bailey
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
– Linus Torvalds
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
– Thomas Sowell
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
– Carter G. Woodson
In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.
– Michael Jordan
If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.
– Suze Orman
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.
– Russell Simmons
If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
– Suze Orman
If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.
– Michael Bloomberg
If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
– Willie Nelson
If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
– Ogden Nash
If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.
– Henry Kravis