Money Quotes

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
– Thomas Jefferson
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
– A. J. Liebling
The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
– Jerry Saltz
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
– Paul Stanley
The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.
– John Cusack
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
– Natan Sharansky
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
– Ice Cube
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
– Dinah Shore
The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
– Fareed Zakaria
The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
– Bill Rancic
Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.
– Iain Duncan Smith
Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.
– Jim Walton
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
– Richard Pryor
Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
– Jesse Helms
Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.
– Melissa Rosenberg
Sports is all about money.
– Lynn Samuels
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
– Bruce Dern
Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.
– Muhammad Yunus
Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
– Martha Beck
Some guys travel with expensive Louis Vuitton luggage but it gets all scratched up under the plane. I'd rather not spend too much money on something that's just going to get messed up.
– James Harden
So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?
– Julie Chen
So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom.
– Scott Walker
So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
– David Strathairn
So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
– DJ Jazzy Jeff
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
– Jay Chiat
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
– Michael Caine
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
– Jack Vance
Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.
– Jesse Ventura
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
– Henry David Thoreau
Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.
– Louis Farrakhan
Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.
– Ron Wyden
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
– Thomas Sowell
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
– Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Politics is not about money.
– Paul Wellstone
Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
– Mike Huckabee
Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
– Toi Derricotte
People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.
– Colin Quinn
People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
– Daniel Radcliffe
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
– Benjamin Carson
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
– Joan Rivers
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
– Ralph Lauren
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.
– David Wilkerson
Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
– Christiane Amanpour
One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.
– Francois Hollande
Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.
– Jonah Hill
Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
– Jeffrey Kluger
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
– Paulo Coelho
Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.
– Dylan McDermott
Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.
– Jerry Saltz
Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.
– NeNe Leakes
Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.
– Howard Dean
North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.
– Michael Kors
No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
– Christie Hefner
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
– Larry McMurtry
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
– Michael Pollan
My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
– Ray Romano
My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
– Michael Symon
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
– Maggie Stiefvater
My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that.
– Gemma Arterton
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.
– Freeman A. Hrabowski III
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
– Dave Grohl
My mom taught me not to talk about money.
– Hilary Duff
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
– Tom Lehrer
My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.
– Steven Adler
My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
– Nicki Minaj
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
– Steve Wozniak
My goal when I started out was to get to the point where I could tour a lot and make a living, which means getting paid enough to hire my own band, travel and end up with a bit of money, but I'm still nowhere near that point. Because I didn't have a band and fan base when I started, I did everything backward.
– Teddy Thompson
My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.
– Shia LaBeouf
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
– Alan Cumming
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
– Steve Jobs
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
– Arlen Specter
My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.
– Jane Goodall
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
– Evangeline Lilly
My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.
– Katy Perry
My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.
– Billy Baldwin
My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
– Gary Numan
My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
– Roger Federer
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
– Jerry Only
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
– Ian MacKaye
Much good art got made while money ruled I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
– Jerry Saltz
Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
– Jim DeMint
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
– Charles Stanley
Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
– Macaulay Culkin
Moreover, health center services save money and lives by treating diseases before they become chronic conditions, require hospital care or require a trip to the emergency room.
– Tim Murphy
More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.
– Kathleen Sebelius
More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
– Joyce Maynard
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
– John Hodgman
Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
– Katarina Witt
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
– Ted Rall
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
– Donald Trump
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
– Freddie Mercury
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
– Bjorn Lomborg
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
– Sophocles
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
– Andrew Jackson
Money is something that can be measured art is not. It's all subjective.
– Jerry Saltz
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
– Suze Orman
Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.
– Rupert Murdoch
Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
– Eric Ripert