Money Quotes

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
– Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
– Mother Teresa
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.
– Tertullian
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
– Hunter S. Thompson
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
– Hunter S. Thompson
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
– Henry David Thoreau
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
– Henry David Thoreau
As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
– Alexis de Tocqueville
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
– Donald Trump
You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don't say nothin' 'bout the money. 'Hi, how ya doin'? How's ya mama doing?' Man, how's my money doin'?
– Chris Tucker
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
– Lana Turner
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
– Sun Tzu
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
– Bill Vaughan
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
– Bill Vaughn
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
– Bill Vaughn
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
– Gore Vidal
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
– Voltaire
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
– Margaret Walker
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
– Sam Walton
I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.
– Andy Warhol
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
– Edith Wharton
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
– Theodore H. White
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
– Oscar Wilde
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
– Tennessee Williams
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
– Virginia Woolf
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
– Virginia Woolf
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, What for? I said, I'm going to buy some sugar.
– Steven Wright
When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
– Loretta Young
I've got all the money I'll ever need if I die by four o'clock this afternoon.
– Henny Youngman
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.
– Henny Youngman
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.
– Zig Ziglar
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.
– Johann Georg Zimmermann
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
– Neil Simon
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
– Arthur Miller
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
– Publilius Syrus
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
– George Bernard Shaw
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
– Jonathan Swift
Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
– Suze Orman
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
– Martin Scorsese
You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.
– David Lynch
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
– Billy Joel
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
– Lady Gaga
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
– Robert H. Schuller
You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.
– Heston Blumenthal
You must spend money to make money.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
– Joel Osteen
You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?
– Hillary Clinton
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
– Steve Jobs
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.
– Michael Bloomberg
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
– Arthur Rock
You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.
– Katy Perry
You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
– Casey Stengel
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
– Thomas Wolfe
You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.
– Rick Perry
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
– Samuel Johnson
You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.
– Shia LaBeouf
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
– Jello Biafra
You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.
– Glenn Beck
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.
– Tom Hopkins
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
– Garth Brooks
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
– Moliere
Work isn't to make money you work to justify life.
– Marc Chagall
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.
– Steve Jobs
Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?
– Suze Orman
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
– Christopher Marlowe
When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
– R. Lee Ermey
When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
– Scott Adams
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
– Anthony Trollope
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
– Ang Lee
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
– Ray Bradbury
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
– George Bernard Shaw
What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
– Janice Dickinson
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
– Sitting Bull
What is there that money will not do?
– Anthony Trollope
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
– Paul Ryan
What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.
– Diane Kruger
What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.
– Merton Miller
Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
– Rush Limbaugh
Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
– Alice Walker
Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
– Gary Oldman
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
– Carly Fiorina
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
– Samuel Butler
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
– Don Marquis
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
– Jim Valvano
We need to stop spending money we don't have.
– Paul Ryan
We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
– Marianne Williamson
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
– Barack Obama
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
– Peter Singer
We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.
– Francis Ford Coppola
We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.
– Marian Wright Edelman
We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.
– Hillary Clinton
We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.
– Julie Burchill
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
– George Bernard Shaw
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
– Jack Nicholson
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
– Ken Venturi
Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.
– John Malkovich
Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.
– Michael Jordan