Money Quotes

When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

~ Basil The Great

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

~ Adam Smith

Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.

~ Sophia Amoruso

He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum.

~ T. Mountebank

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.

~ Craig Ferguson

You're broke, eh?I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

~ Raymond Chandler

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

~ David Lee Roth

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably, the man who respects it has earned it.

~ Ayn Rand

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

~ Charles Dickens

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got lots of numbers in it.

~ George W. Bush

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

~ Terry Pratchett

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.

~ Peter Kreeft

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

~ Brian Andreas

He thinks we're made of money.

~ Kristin Cashore

For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

~ L. Frank Baum

Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

~ Plato

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

~ William Gibson

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

~ Ayn Rand

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

~ Dodie Smith

In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.

~ Criss Jami

How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present

~ Robert Walser

Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day. (42)

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

The more you Learn, The more you earn

~ Frank Clark

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

~ Richard Branson

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

~ Derrick Jensen

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

~ Samuel Johnson

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

~ Haruki Murakami

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want.

~ Margaret Young

Money is only a human invention.

~ Vanna Bonta

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

~ Vicki Robin

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

~ Aphra Behn

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

~ Robert Anton Wilson

Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.

~ Ian Fleming

Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.

~ Candace Bushnell

What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.

~ Mac Miller

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

~ Elizabeth Warren

People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold.

~ Thomas A. Edison