Quotes about money

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

— Benjamin Franklin

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

— Robert Fulghum

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

— Thomas Fuller

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

— John Gay

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.

— Jerry Gellis

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

— J. Paul Getty

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

— J. Paul Getty

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

— Kahlil Gibran

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

— Jerry Gillies

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

— Oliver Goldsmith

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

— Billy Graham

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

— Horace Greeley

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

— Edward F. Halifax

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

— Napoleon Hill

Money without brains is always dangerous.

— Napoleon Hill

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

— Napoleon Hill

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

— Bill Hoest

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

— Horace

Money is good, love is wealth.

— Doug Horton

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

— John Howard

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

— Edgar Watson Howe

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

— Edgar Watson Howe

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

— Elbert Hubbard

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

— Elbert Hubbard

The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.

— Kin Hubbard

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

— Gittel Hudnick

Money is just a way of keeping score.

— H. L. Hunt

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

— Lee Iacocca

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

— Henrik Ibsen

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

— Glenda Jackson

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

— Henry James

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

— Thomas Jefferson

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

— Ben Johnson

Whatever you have spend less.

— Samuel Johnson

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

— Samuel Johnson

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

— (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

— Joe Karbo

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

— John Maynard Keynes

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

— John Maynard Keynes

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

— E. S. Kinnear

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

— Ray Kroc

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

— Lewis H. Lapham

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

— Lewis H. Lapham

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

— George Horace Latimer

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

— Jack Lemmon

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

— John Lennon

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

— Joe E. Lewis

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

— Joe E. Lewis

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

— Joe E. Lewis

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

— Jesse Livermore

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

— Lucian

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

— Gaius Lucilius

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

— Martin Luther

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

— George Macdonald

When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.

— Sidney Madwed

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

— Bernard Mandeville

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

— Don Marquis

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

— Marcus Valerius Martial

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

— Karl Marx

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

— Jackie Mason

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

— Robert J. Mccracken

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

— H. L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

— H. L. Mencken

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

— Spike Milligan

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

— James Moffatt

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

— Marilyn Monroe

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Money doesn't sleep.

— Wall Street Movie

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

— Thornton T. Munger

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

— Clint Jr. Murchison

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

— Rupert Murdoch

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

— Paula Nelson

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

— Duane Newcomb

Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

— Richard Ney

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

— Gregory Nunn

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

— Vic Oliver

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

— Austin O'Malley

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

— Aristotle Onassis

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

— Robert Orben

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

— Ovid

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

— Michael Phillips

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

— Plutarch

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

— Sextus Propertius

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

— Proverb

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

— Proverb

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

— Chinese Proverb

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

— Hebrew Proverb

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

— Italian Proverb

Money begets money.

— Italian Proverb

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

— Japanese Proverb

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

— Jewish Proverb

Good management is better than good income.

— Portuguese Proverb

When money speaks the truth is silent.

— Russian Proverb

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

— Scottish Proverb

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

— Yiddish Proverb