Top 100 Money Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best money quotes ever written, picked out of the full money archive on QuoteForever. You will find George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Bacon and Brian Tracy among them.

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1

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

2

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

3

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

4

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

5

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

6

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

7

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

8

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

9

I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.

10

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

11

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

12

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

13

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

14

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

15

If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

16

In America, money takes the place of God.

17

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

18

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

19

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

20

When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it.

21

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

22

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.

23

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

24

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

25

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

26

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

27

Nothing did more to spur the boom in stocks than the decision made by the New York Federal Reserve bank, in the spring of 1927, to cut the rediscount rate. Benjamin Strong, Governor of the bank, was chief advocate of this unwise measure, which was taken largely at the behest of Montagu Norman of the Bank of England....At the time of the Banks action I warned of its consequences....I felt that sooner or later the market had to break.

28

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

29

How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

30

Money is hard to earn and easy to lose. Guard yours with care.

31

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

32

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

33

There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

34

And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

35

I've got enough money in my life to retire now and do nothing. But I've got a duty and obligation to see if we can create more jobs in this state, and the government's got an obligation to approve projects and to assess them for the benefit of the people of Queensland.

36

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

37

My take on the whole dot-com bubble was that a lot of people who wanted to make a lot of money got too excited and hyped up the commercial aspects of the Internet prematurely. I think the vision of the Internet as a democratizing medium - as everyone's printing press - is real. We got distracted from that by the mass hallucinations of the bubble.

38

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

39

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

40

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

41

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

42

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

43

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

44

Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

45

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

46

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

47

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

48

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.

49

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

50

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

51

Many people are afraid to fail, so they don't try. They may dream, talk, and even plan, but they don't take that critical step of putting their money and their effort on the line. To succeed in business, you must take risks. Even if you fail, that's how you learn. There has never been, and will never be, an Olympic skater who didn't fall on the ice.

52

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

53

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

54

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

55

I never knew a man who got so hurt in his pocketbook.

56

People will always choose more money over more sex

57

We are all slaves to the shining metal.

58

Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

59

Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

60

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

61

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

62

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.

63

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

64

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

65

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

66

It is a transition, from modelling to singing, but for me it's a natural progression. The modelling was something I did to travel the world and make some money and end up doing what I want to do. It was a way for me to go gather the experience to write an album and now sing about it.

67

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

68

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

69

Money. . . those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.

70

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

71

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

72

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

73

You breathe better when you're rich.

74

This bank-note world.

75

It's the Government's job to print the money, deliver the mail and declare war. Now give me my cigarettes.

76

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

77

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

78

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

79

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

80

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

81

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

82

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

83

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.

84

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

85

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

86

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

87

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

88

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

89

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

90

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 basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

91

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

92

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

93

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

94

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

95

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

96

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

97

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

98

In the end, raising money is basically a matter of going out there and asking. There are no shortcuts.

99

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

100

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

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