Money Quotes: Wise Words on Wealth & Finance

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

C. Wright Mills, Sociologist

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"Success isn't about how much money you make; it's about the difference you make in people's lives"

Jordan Belfort, Author

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person"

Britney Spears, Musician

"Money often costs too much"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Remember that credit is money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money"

Thomas Jefferson, President

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

Earl Warren, Judge

"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need"

Will Rogers, Actor

"A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws"

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

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

Voltaire, Writer

"The lack of money is the root of all evil"

Mark Twain, Author

"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets"

Ronald Reagan, President

"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"It's not about making a lot of money, it's about doing something that you're passionate about and that you believe in"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"All money is a matter of belief"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty"

Sallust, Historian

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

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