Money Quotes

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
– Mason Cooley
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
– William Blake
To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.
– Suze Orman
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.
– James Buchan
To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.
– David Bailey
To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.
– Jon Cryer
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
– Josh Billings
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
– Dick Armey
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
– Sophocles
This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.
– Mark Zuckerberg
Things are done according to money these days.
– Shirley MacLaine
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
– Carter G. Woodson
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.
– Suze Orman
There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.
– Phyllis Diller
There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.
– Paula Deen
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
– Oscar Wilde
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
– Don Marquis
There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
– Harriet Ann Jacobs
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
– Timothy Geithner
There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.
– Martin Scorsese
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
– Henry A. Wallace
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
– Samuel Johnson
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
– Karl Marx
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
– Mario Batali
The want of money is the root of all evil.
– Samuel Butler
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
– Chris Christie
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.
– Alice Walker
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
– Gertrude Stein
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
– Tom Hooper
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
– Carter G. Woodson
The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
– Jane Bryant Quinn
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
– Margaret Thatcher
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
– Ziggy Marley
The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.
– Hayden Fry
The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
– Paul Wellstone
The passion for money is never fickle.
– Mason Cooley
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
– Jon Bon Jovi
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
– Lysander Spooner
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
– Yoko Ono
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
– Gore Vidal
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
– Julie Burchill
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
– Jim Carrey
The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.
– Suze Orman
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
– Mark Twain
The key to making money is to stay invested.
– Suze Orman
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
– Jonathan Kozol
The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
– Carly Fiorina
The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.
– Suze Orman
The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
– Adele Brookman
The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.
– Henry Hazlitt
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
– Billy Sunday
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
– Chester A. Arthur
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
– Charles Dickens
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
– James Madison
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
– H. L. Mencken
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
– Henry Rollins
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
– Paul Ryan
That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
– Richard Armour
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
– Lukas Foss
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
– Brian Tracy
Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.
– Terry Pratchett
Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.
– Suze Orman
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
– Mike Ditka
Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.
– Johnny Cash
Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.
– Imran Khan
Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
– Tony Randall
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
– Calvin Klein
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
– Lady Gaga
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
– Ayn Rand
Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
– Mason Cooley
Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
– Ang Lee
Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
– Bono
Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
– Woody Allen
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
– Joel Osteen
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
– Sophocles
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
– Steve Jobs
President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
– Mitt Romney
President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians. That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs.
– John Sununu
Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
– Paul Wellstone
Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.
– David Bailey
People will always choose more money over more sex.
– Doug Coupland
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
– Thomas Sowell
People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
– Eric Davis
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
– Ed Markey
People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
– Adam Carolla
People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.
– Wynton Marsalis
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
– Jennifer Lopez
People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
– Phyllis Schlafly
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
– Mike Tyson
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
– Robert H. Schuller
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
– Moshe Dayan
Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
– Warren Beatty