Quotes about money
money clothes
I don't spend much money on clothes; I never did. Lauren Hutton
money car common
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. Larry McMurtry
money differences making-a-difference
I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference. Lady Gaga
money tree grows
Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did, someone else would own the orchard. Lewis Grizzard
money luxury murder
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. Lewis H. Lapham
money men views
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic. Lewis H. Lapham
money technology men
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put. Lewis H. Lapham
money men decay
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections. Lewis H. Lapham
money believe mean
Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. Lewis H. Lapham
money media stories
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media. Leon Wieseltier
money investing investment
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. John Maynard Keynes
money business future
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future. John Maynard Keynes
money government deception
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer. John Maynard Keynes
money independent opportunity
Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent. Jim Rohn
money rich-poor financial-independence
The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left. Jim Rohn
money jobs dollars
It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth. George M. Humphrey
money men headache
What can money do to console a man with a headache? George MacDonald
money sight singing
I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money. Elvis Presley
money people insightful
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. Katharine Whitehorn
money youth young
Being young is not having any money; being young is not minding not having any money. Katharine Whitehorn
money children way
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn
money sex choices
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal. Katharine Hepburn
money men knowing
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. Joseph de Maistre
money devil coins
Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin. Laurell K. Hamilton
money hard-work funny-work
If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. Lane Kirkland
money people tasks
If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular. John Kenneth Galbraith
money important mistress
Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. John Kenneth Galbraith
money war government
In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply. John Kenneth Galbraith
money doctrine littles
We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. John Kenneth Galbraith
money simple mind
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent. John Kenneth Galbraith
money men two
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. John Kenneth Galbraith
money way economy
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. John D. Rockefeller
money business men
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. John D. Rockefeller