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

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

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

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

Pablo Picasso, Artist

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

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws"

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Businessman

"Money is just a way of keeping score"

H. L. Hunt, Businessman

"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

"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

"Money often costs too much"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

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

Jordan Belfort, Author

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

"All money is a matter of belief"

Adam Smith, Economist

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

Earl Warren, Judge

"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

"Money is not real. It is a conscious agreement on measuring value"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"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

"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"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

"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

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

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

"We have the best government that money can buy"

Mark Twain, Author

"Remember that credit is money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"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

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

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

Adam Smith, Economist

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy"

Spike Milligan, Comedian

"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