Money Quotes

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewig

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time.

Margaret Bonnano

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.

Carl Sandburg

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

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, - - which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and - - watch that basket.

Mark Twain

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltze

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

Henry David Thoreau

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.

Mark Twain

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

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Assyrian Prove

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

I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.

John D. Rockefelle

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Marilyn Monroe

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Oliver Herford

Jerry Show me the money.

Jerry Maguire

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Anon.

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

Max Lucado

There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

Sam Walton

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Richard Needham

Spare no expense to save money on this one.

Samuel Goldwyn

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Charles Farrar Browne

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

Voltaire

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

Ready money works great cures.

French Prove

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford