Money Quotes

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.
– Juliana Hatfield
I don't make decisions based on money.
– David Duchovny
I don't like begging money from producers.
– David Byrne
I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
– Robert Redford
I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
– Daniel Radcliffe
I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
– Vivienne Westwood
I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
– Don Van Vliet
I don't come from money.
– Christina Ricci
I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.
– Cornelius Vanderbilt
I don't care about money.
– Lady Gaga
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.
– Yogi Berra
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
– Joel Osteen
I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
– Shaquille O'Neal
I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
– Mike Tyson
I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.
– Chloe Sevigny
I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
– Lady Gaga
I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.
– Christina Ricci
I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.
– Jessica Lange
I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
– Mike Tyson
I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
– Paul Ryan
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
– Cat Stevens
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
– Willie Nelson
I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.
– Kid Rock
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
– Paul Harvey
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
– Julie Andrews
I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'
– Suze Orman
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
– Hedy Lamarr
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
– Catherine Deneuve
I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
– Jack Welch
Human beings are much bigger than just making money.
– Muhammad Yunus
Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.
– Katy Perry
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
– Andre Benjamin
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
– Jose Marti
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
– James A. Garfield
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
– Mary Quant
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
– J. D. Salinger
From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.
– Julie Burchill
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
– Billy Wilder
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
– Louis C. K.
For industry to settle in a country, you first need electricity for electricity, you need some trained workers for trained workers, you need some schools for schools you need some money for money, you need some industry.
– Evan Davis
For I can raise no money by vile means.
– William Shakespeare
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
– Richard Branson
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
– Ringo Starr
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.
– Jeff Foxworthy
Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
– Jack Nicholson
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
– Wilhelm Steinitz
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
– Joseph de Maistre
Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
– Meryl Streep
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
– Toni Morrison
Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
– Thomas Huxley
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
– Bob Dylan
Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.
– Billy Joel
Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
– Samantha Bee
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
– Sonny Bono
Do what you love and the money will follow.
– Marsha Sinetar
Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.
– Richard Wagner
Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
– Orson Welles
Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
– Yoko Ono
Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
– Michelle Obama
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
– Alfred Marshall
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
– Vivienne Westwood
But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.
– Lily Tomlin
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
– David Millar
But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.
– Heidi Klum
Business is other people's money.
– Delphine de Girardin
Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.
– Samuel Butler
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
– Joe Frazier
Big money is ruining the political system.
– Arlen Specter
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
– Earl Warren
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
– David Ogden Stiers
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
– Dan Quayle
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
– Shia LaBeouf
At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.
– Sean Parker
At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.
– David Duchovny
As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
– David Korten
As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.
– Francis Ford Coppola
As kids we didn't complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
– Jay-Z
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.
– Tim Scott
As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
– Rick Perry
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
– Ambrose Bierce
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
– Abu Bakar Bashir
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.
– Robert Fulghum
Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
– Alyssa Milano
And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
– Freddie Mercury
And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
– Tony Campolo
And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.
– Demetri Martin
And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.
– Michael Bloomberg
And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.
– Jim Henson
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
– Gro Harlem Brundtland
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
– Hedy Lamarr
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
– Earl Wilson
Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
– Benjamin Tucker
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
– Robert Collier
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
– Paul Auster
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
– Ron Paul
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity.
– Jonathan Sacks
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
– Imamu Amiri Baraka