Quotes about money

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

— Mary Quant

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

— Mme. Riccoboni

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

— Anthony Robbins

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

— John D. Rockefeller

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

— John D. Rockefeller

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

— Jim Rohn

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

— Jim Rohn

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

— Romain Rolland

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

— John Ruskin

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

— Col. Harland Sanders

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

— Robert H. Schuller

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

— Seneca

A great fortune is a great slavery.

— Seneca

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

— William Shakespeare

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

— George Bernard Shaw

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

— George Bernard Shaw

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

— George Bernard Shaw

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

— James Spader

Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

— Roger Starr

Money is always there but the pockets change.

— Gertrude Stein

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

— Jonathan Swift

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

— Tertullian

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

— Henry David Thoreau

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

— Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life.

— Henry David Thoreau

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

— Marvin Traub

The buck stops here.

— Harry S Truman

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

— Donald Trump

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.

— Sophie Tucker

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

— Sophie Tucker

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

— Mark Twain

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

— Mark Twain

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

— Mark Twain

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

— Source Unknown

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

— Source Unknown

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

— Source Unknown

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

— Source Unknown

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

— Source Unknown

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

— Source Unknown

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

— Source Unknown

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

— Source Unknown

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

— Source Unknown

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

— Source Unknown

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

— Bill Vaughan

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

— Voltaire

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

— Denis Waitley

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

— Denis Waitley

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

— Artemus Ward

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

— John Wesley

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

— Oscar Wilde

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

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

— Stuart Wilde

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

— Les Williams

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

— Earl Wilson

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

— Georgia Witkin

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

— Henny Youngman

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

— Zig Ziglar

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

— Martin Zimet

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

— American Indian Proverb

You know a whole lot more about money than you think you do. You’ve only been misled to believe that you don’t know by people who don’t want you to understand how simple money really is.

— John Rocco Savalli

The secret to money is so simple that most people completely miss it, because they’re looking for some grand answer about this resource called money, which has so much power over them.

— John Rocco Savalli

Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy.

— John Rocco Savalli

Money is whatever symbol we decide upon to represent human energy for an item or service.

— John Rocco Savalli

Money represents a promise of human energy.

— John Rocco Savalli

We'll [the central bankers] GIVE them someone to blame. We'll blame the greedy business islanders, and the rich. We'll play on people's negative emotions and natural reactions of fear, anger, jealousy, and resentment. We'll blame the very producers of real goods and services for the problem that we created, using our control of the island's communication media to shift the blame.

— John Rocco Savalli

Truth is simple. It's just the truth. But think about when someone lies. Think about all the lies they need to tell in order to keep the original lie going. It's a tangled web, and it makes getting at the truth very difficult - which is exactly what the liar wants. That's why it seems that our financial system is so complex. We've gotten away from the truth - far, far away from it.

— John Rocco Savalli

Affection is dezirable, but money is absolutly undispensable.

— Jane Austen

Up early making ends meet, don't wait til the end to meet, no need to sleep late, start the paper chase before eight.

— Authentic James

I look like so much money, you came over here, thinking you owe me money.

— BPBEE

Don't do it for the hater's do it for your health. The hating comes along with your acquired wealth.

— Jvongard

Some of y'all are talking about money, Most of y'all should not be talking...Shhh just sit & listen, since you can pay attention.

— Jvongard

The richer you get, the poorer you become.

— Jerome Morfaw

Money can't buy love.. Love can't buy anything

— Harrison Guiol

A fool and her money are soon courted.

— Helen Rowland

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

— Aphra Behn

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

— Woody Allen

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

— Tennessee Williams

Money buys everything except mental-peace

— ranka dharam