Money Quotes

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.

Aristippus

I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half.

John Wanamake

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Marilyn Monroe

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles Schwa

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

William Lyon Phelps

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Eric Butterworth

To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

George Bernard Shaw

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain.

Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

George Washington

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

Adults are just children who earn money.

Kenneth Branaugh

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butle

Corporations have been enthroned.... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands... and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Sir Francis Bacon

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Louisa May Alcott

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars, " 1964

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness.

Mike Gill

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kin Hubbard

Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.

Edward C. Moroney, Jr.

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

Anthony Burgess

The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK taling about the internet - November 2000

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

Andy Warhol

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Voltaire, Letter (1769)

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

A. J. Liebling

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

Henry Ford

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

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Dick Gregory

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Bertrand Russell

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Diane Ackerman

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

W. J. Cameron