Money Quotes

"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does"

"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

"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements"

Doug Coupland, Author

"Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money"

Tyler Perry, Actor

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

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

"We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things"

Graham Nash, Musician

"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

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

Earl Warren, Judge

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

Sallust, Historian

"Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work"

Philip Green, Businessman

"Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me"

Rowan Atkinson, Comedian

"I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"I don't need the money, dear. I work for art"

Maria Callas, Musician

"All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it"

Curtis Carlson, Businessman

"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money"

Imran Khan, Politician

"That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'"

Richard Armour, Poet

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

John Ralston Saul, Author

"Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools"

Thomas Hobbes, Philosopher

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"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 made my money by selling too soon"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life"

Neil LaBute, Director

"You must spend money to make money"

Plautus, Playwright

"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"And I kind of feel that I have a responsibility to the people that invest their time and money with me to show up on the set every day and do the best of which I am capable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Thomas Tusser, Poet

"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money"

David Geffen, Businessman

"And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money"

David Geffen, Businessman

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

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

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