Quotes about money

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

— Joey Adams

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

— Scott Alexander

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

— Scott Alexander

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

— Martin Amis

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

— J. Ogden Armour

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

— Max Asnas

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

— Jane Austen

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

— Alan Ayckbourn

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

— Francis Bacon

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

— Francis Bacon

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

— Francis Bacon

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

— Francis Bacon

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

— Francis Bacon

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

— James Baldwin

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

— Honore De Balzac

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

— P.T. Barnum

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

— John Barrymore

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

— Hilaire Belloc

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

— Yogi Berra

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

— Yogi Berra

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

— Bible

The love of money is the root of all evil.

— Bible

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

— Bible

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

— Josh Billings

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

— Victoria Billings

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

— William Binger

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

— Larry Bird

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

— Srully Blotnick

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

— Srully Blotnick

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

— Ezra Bowen

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

— Richard Branson

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

— Walford Bodie

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

— Hobart Brown

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

— Les Brown

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

— Norman O. Brown

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

— Warren Buffett

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

— Warren Buffett

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

— Bumper Sticker

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

— Charles F. Bunning

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

— Anthony Burgess

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that's wrong.

— Willard C. Butcher

The money men make lives after them.

— Samuel Butler

The want of money is the root of all evil.

— Samuel Butler

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

— Lord Byron

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

— Lord Byron

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

— Lord Byron

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.

— W. J. Cameron

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

— Albert Camus

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

— Johnny Carson

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

— Herbert N. Casson

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

— Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

— Raymond Chandler

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

— Coco Chanel

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

— Ray Charles

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

— Marcus T. Cicero

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

— Frank A. Clark

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

— Frank A. Clark

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

— Frank A. Clark

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

— George S. Clason

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

— George S. Clason

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

— Robert Collier

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

— Robert Collier

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't even get an allowance.

— Macaulay Culkin

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

— Edward Dahlberg

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

— Rita Davenport

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

— Robertson Davies

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

— Richard M. DeVos

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

— Charles Dickens

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

— Denis Diderot

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

— Everett M. Dirksen

When you don't have any money, the problem is food, When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, its. It's health, If everything is simple, then you're frightened of death.

— J. P. Donleavy

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

— Andrea Dworkin

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

— Wayne Dyer

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

— Wayne Dyer

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

— Bob Dylan

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

— Bill Earle

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

— Sir John Egan

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

— Albert Einstein

The world is his who has money to go over it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

— George Farquhar

Money can't buy poverty.

— Marty Feldman

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

— Henry Fielding

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

— Henry Fielding

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

— Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

— Henry Fielding

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

— W. C. Fields

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

— Harvey S. Firestone

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

— Henry Ford

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

— Henry Ford

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

— Anatole France

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

— Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

— Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

— Benjamin Franklin