Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simone Weil

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

Thomas Carlyle

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Tom Waits

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Steve Martin

If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.

Spike Milligan

Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

Shakti Gawain

People with little money seldom realize that people who have a lot of money are also frightened. ... If security is based on having money, it doesn't matter whether you have a little or a lot, you're going to be afraid.

Richard Branson

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Richard Branson

Money is for making things happen.

Timothy West

Anybody can decide if they have got the money to fight a case if they don't like a particular thing, and they complain to the watch committee, local council or whatever.

Robert Anthony

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

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.

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.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

Vernon Howard

One of society's absurd delusions is that the spending of money can cure something.

Robert Fulghum

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Robert Frost

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

Robert Benchley

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.

Rita Rudner

If you like easygoing, monogamous men, stay away from billionaires.

Rita Rudner

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money!

Richard Thaler

Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

Rene Rivkin

When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

Thornton Wilder

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.