Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Sean O'Casey

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Larry David

I've always loathed rich people, so I've become who I've loathed, which makes it doubly difficult, if you can follow me.

Lady Gregory

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

Neil Simon

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Vanna Bonta

Money is only a human invention.

Vanna Bonta

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Tryon Edwards

To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

Sophocles

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

Stephen Leacock

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Marcus Aurelius

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Shia LaBeouf

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Shane West

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

Swami Vivekananda

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

Tony Bennett

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

Robert Anthony

Money cannot make you happy, but it can get rid of many of the things that make you unhappy.

Robert A. Heinlein

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

Robert A. Heinlein

Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

Robert A. Heinlein

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Robert A. Heinlein

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

Tiger Woods

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Steven Wright

I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect.

Steven Wright

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

Steven Wright

A fool and his money are soon partying.

Steven Wright

The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store . . . with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

Steven Spielberg

I'm not really interested in making money.

Tom Hanks

I don't ask for much. I don't ask to be rich, and I don't ask to be famous, and I don't ask to play center field for the New York Yankees. I just want to get married and have a wife, and a house, and I want to have a kid, and I want to go see him be a tooth in the school play!

Tim Ferriss

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Steve Wozniak

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Thomas Carlyle

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

Thomas Carlyle

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.