Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Henry David Thoreau

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

Henry David Thoreau

Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

Henry David Thoreau

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Henry David Thoreau

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Henry David Thoreau

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

Henry David Thoreau

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Henry David Thoreau

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life.

H. L. Hunt

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Jean Paul Gaultier

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jerry Garcia

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Jean Seberg

Money doesn`t buy happiness. But happiness isn`t everything.

Jeff Koons

Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

Jennifer Lawrence

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.

Jeff Foxworthy

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

Jean Chatzky

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later.

James Agate

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

James A. Garfield

The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.

James A. Garfield

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Jackie Mason

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

Christopher Hitchens

The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

Franklin P. Adams

Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

Franz Grillparzer

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

Franz Grillparzer

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Jeanette Winterson

One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.

Jeanette Winterson

I never cared about money.