Money Quotes

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
– Gertrude Stein
Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.
– Jennifer Weiner
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
– Ayrton Senna
Money is a kind of poetry.
– Wallace Stevens
Money in politics is a huge issue.
– Russ Feingold
Money equals freedom.
– Kevin O'Leary
Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
– James Hansen
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
– Thomas Frank
Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee.
– Joichi Ito
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
– Ayn Rand
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.
– Neil Simon
Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.
– Mary Renault
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
– Spike Milligan
Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
– Ethel Waters
Millions have been taken from me. If you are not on top of it and you make a lot of money, and you trust business managers, then, yes, money will be taken from you.
– Stephanie Mills
Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?
– Jeffrey Kluger
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
– Suze Orman
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
– Abel Ferrara
Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
– Melanie Brown
Look, Congress has allocated more money to finance the upcoming Iraqi elections than it has for the American elections. There's something wrong with that.
– Donna Brazile
Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
– George Thorogood
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
– Malcolm Turnbull
Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
– Elizabeth Gilbert
Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.
– Murray Walker
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
– Stephen King
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
– William F. Buckley, Jr.
Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.
– Susana Martinez
Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.
– Haley Joel Osment
Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.
– Denis Leary
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
– Alexander Payne
Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
– John Kricfalusi
It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.
– Paul Wolfowitz
It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
– Quentin Tarantino
It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
– Ben Gazzara
It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.
– Joel Edgerton
It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.
– Criss Angel
It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid.
– Phil Bredesen
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
– Christopher Lambert
It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
– Bode Miller
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
– Bruno Tonioli
It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.
– Patti Stanger
It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.
– Matt LeBlanc
It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.
– Sebastian Junger
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
– Paz de la Huerta
It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.
– Joel Osteen
It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.
– Genevieve Gorder
It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
– Donald Trump
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
– Robert Fulghum
It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!
– John Davidson
It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
– Bernadette Peters
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
– Robin Leach
It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.
– Gary Neville
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
– Margaret Thatcher
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
– Gloria Steinem
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
– Dorothy Day
It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
– Paul Giamatti
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
– W. H. Auden
It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.
– Tyler Florence
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
– Kathleen Turner
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
– Earl Wilson
Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview.
– Marc Ostrofsky
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.
– Polly Toynbee
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
– Aravind Adiga
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
– Laura Miller
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
– Brett Favre
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
– Ray Dalio
In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
– Eva Longoria
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
– Adam Carolla
In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.
– James Buchan
In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.
– Doc Hastings
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
– William Penn
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
– Elena Kagan
In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
– Christie Hefner
In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
– Leslie Banks
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
– Fareed Zakaria
If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money, how you want to raise kids, who is going to work or stay home or what have you, then you've set yourself up for failure.
– Phil McGraw
If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
– Jim McKay
If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
– Arthur C. Brooks
If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
– James Dyson
If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
– Halle Berry
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
– Lawrence Welk
If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.
– Steve Guttenberg
If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.
– Maria Bartiromo
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
– John Major
If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.
– Peter Sotos
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
– will.i.am
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
– Carly Fiorina
If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.
– Tyler Perry
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
– William Greider
If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.
– Donna Mills
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.
– Kim Stanley Robinson
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
– Doug Coupland
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.
– John Hope
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
– Swami Vivekananda
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
– Neal Boortz
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
– Tupac Shakur
If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that.
– Jeroen Dijsselbloem