Money Quotes

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

Voltaire

Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities.

Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money.

Ayn Rand

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.

David Williamson

Many people seem to think that opportunity means a chance to get money without earning it.

Author Unknown

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.

Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Margaret Young

The most efficient labor - Saving device is still money.

Franklin P Jones

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

Peter Coope

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.

John Fellows Akers

Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.

David Richerby

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, - - which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and - - watch that basket.

Mark Twain

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Charles De Talleyrand

If you do something only for money, you will never succeed at it.

Don Hall, (Hallmark CEO)

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing".

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings.

Carl Sandburg

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

Max Lucado

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau, Simplify simplify

A billion here, a billion there - Pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Benjamin Franklin

Being rich is having money being wealthy is having time.

Margaret Bonnano

Remember that time is money.

Benjamin Franklin

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

Andy Warhol

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food.

Assyrian Prove

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

Diane Ackerman

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

Rick Reilly