Money Quotes

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

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.

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

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Money often costs too much.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

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.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.