Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boris Yeltsin

Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.

Brian Tracy

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

Juvenal

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Juvenal

Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.]

Juvenal

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

Juvenal

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

Kate Reardon

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

Lil' Kim

Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

This was a response of those who did not want to be traced. It's all about money, and it's big money at stake,

Eric Idle

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

Eric Bristow

Any sport where people earn a lot of money you are going to get groupies.

Billie Jean King

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Tiger Woods

When I had the record and the money title, it's very misleading,

Dean Kamen

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

Daniel Handler

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

Dana Carvey

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles' heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

Damon Runyon

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Dan Aykroyd

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

Dan Aykroyd

One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley.

Dan Aykroyd

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.

Craig Ferguson

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

Coco Chanel

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Elizabeth Warren

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

Elizabeth Taylor

Money is the best deodorant.

Elizabeth I

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

B. C. Forbes

How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct.

Arthur Hugh Clough

As I sat at the Cafe I said to myself, They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking, But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh-ho! How pleasant it is to have money!

Arthur Hugh Clough

How pleasant it is to have money.

Ava Gardner

Women's liberation as a movement makes some valid points. But in the final analysis, it doesn't matter who wears the pants - as long as there's money in the pockets.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Arthur Caplan

There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to pay. It's one thing to say you get perks; it's another to say you can buy your way to the head of the line.

Berthold Auerbach

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.