Money Quotes

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.
– Suze Orman
If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
– John Dingell
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.
– David Suzuki
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
– Henry A. Wallace
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
– Michael Bloomberg
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
– Theodor Adorno
If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.
– Ang Lee
If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.
– Billy Sunday
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
– Oliver Reed
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
– Carl Karcher
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
– William Shatner
If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
– Placido Domingo
If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.
– Tiger Woods
If I have enough money to eat I'm good.
– Shia LaBeouf
If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.
– Ricki Lake
If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
– Martina Navratilova
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
– Alan Alda
If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
– Edith Piaf
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
– Paul Ryan
If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
– Danica McKellar
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
– Marya Mannes
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
– Joel Osteen
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
– Beth Ditto
I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but I am really good with money. I don't spend too much at all.
– Justin Bieber
I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money.
– George Michael
I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
– Kinky Friedman
I'm very unstable there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.
– James Taylor
I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
– Liam Neeson
I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
– Bob Dylan
I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.
– Steven Tyler
I'm not really interested in making money.
– Steven Spielberg
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
– Peter Singer
I'm not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
– Marlee Matlin
I'm hopeless with money I simply spend what I've got.
– Freddie Mercury
I'm free of stress and worries now because if I don't like something I'm doing, I just find the fun in it instead of being miserable. Let me have fun with the people I work with, let me have fun making money - when I grew up so poor, ya know?
– Jenny McCarthy
I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
– Mahalia Jackson
I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
– Dean Kamen
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
– Harlan Coben
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
– Pablo Picasso
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
– Paulo Coelho
I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
– Muhammad Yunus
I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.
– Rod Stewart
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
– Francis Ford Coppola
I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
– Larry David
I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
– Gary Vaynerchuk
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
– Elton John
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
– Shia LaBeouf
I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
– Eminem
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
– Alice Walker
I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.
– Walter Isaacson
I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.
– Martin Scorsese
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
– Joseph Campbell
I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
– John Cleese
I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.
– Alan Dershowitz
I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
– Sergei Bubka
I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.
– Kevin Bacon
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
– Doug Coupland
I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
– Jerry Garcia
I think everything depends on money.
– Alan Bean
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
– Laura Linney
I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.
– Larry David
I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.
– Angus Young
I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.
– Shaun White
I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
– Louis C. K.
I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
– Brigitte Bardot
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.
– Barack Obama
I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.
– Rick Perry
I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.
– Maurice Sendak
I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.
– John Malkovich
I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
– Jim Cramer
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.
– Elvis Presley
I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.
– Sarah Jessica Parker
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
– Mike Tyson
I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
– Hedy Lamarr
I know where I'm putting my money.
– Marc Andreessen
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
– Barack Obama
I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.
– Heidi Klum
I have too much money invested in sweaters.
– Bob Hope
I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
I have no one to leave the money to. I'm a single man. I like spending my money.
– Elton John
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
– Henry Miller
I have no idea how much money I've got.
– Daniel Radcliffe
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
– Susan Orlean
I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.
– Elton John
I have a lot of money.
– Chuck Palahniuk
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
– Jean-Michel Basquiat
I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
– Muhammad Yunus
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
– Justin Bieber
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
– Bob Woodward
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
– Tiger Woods
I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.
– Michael Caine
I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.
– Kesha
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
– Marilyn Monroe
I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.
– Lady Gaga
I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.
– Neil Cavuto
I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.
– Toni Morrison
I don't talk about money.
– Kim Kardashian
I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.
– Lauren Hutton