Money Quotes

"When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music"

Jerry Lee Lewis, Musician

"The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time"

Bill Murray, Actor

"I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"Money doesn't buy class"

Kiana Tom, Model

"We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities"

David E. Price, Politician

"The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families"

Jerry Only, Musician

"I suddenly realized that the fellow who didn't show up was getting about fifty-times more money than I was getting. So I thought, 'this is silly,' and became an actor. I certainly never thought I'd wind up in motion pictures. That was far beyond anything I'd ever dreamed of"

Glenn Ford, Actor

"Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles"

Ayrton Senna, Celebrity

"I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy"

Montel Williams, Entertainer

"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money"

Sammy Davis, Jr., Entertainer

"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds"

Sophocles, Author

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"For I can raise no money by vile means"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another"

Voltaire, Writer

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Time is money"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

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

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

"A good reputation is more valuable than money"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Never spend your money before you have earned it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else"

Whitey Herzog, Athlete

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