Money Quotes

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

The deepest American dream is not the hunger for money or fame it is the dream of settling down, in peace and freedom and cooperation, in the promised land.

Scott Russell Sanders

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

John Wanamake

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Samuel Butle

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

Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Zig Zigla

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

Carl Sandburg

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Henry Ford

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)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.

Voltaire

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

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

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

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

A. J. Liebling

Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suckable again.

B. J. Gupta

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

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

George Jean Nathan

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

Assyrian Prove

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Arthur Mille

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

James Arthur Baldwin