Money Quotes

I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.

~ Toba Beta

...that in this town prostitutes may give sewing lessons to ladies of the church, pirates my be consulted for their opinions on seaworth by shipbuilders, Christians and Jews may stroll together on a Sunday, and Indians my play dice games with leatherstockings, but let one silver piece fall in a crack between two members of the same profession and it's bloody war.

~ Robert Mccammon

Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.

~ Amy Dacyczyn

She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did.

~ John Steinbeck

...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy land. That hour will save you three cents' worth of coal... When you are alone at night, do not light the lamp. Sit in the darkness and dream awhile. Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. The money will grow. Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money.

~ Betty Smith

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

~ Patrick Dewitt

Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.

~ Vera Nazarian

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

~ Katherine Whitehorn

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

~ Vivian Amis

Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

~ Nathan W. Morris

Money bought freedom, without it one could never be free.

~ Jacqueline Susann

Remember your true self. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. Knowing this, you will understand why happiness and prosperity are your birth right.

~ Stephen Richards

The basis of Cosmic Ordering is the belief that the universe is not dead matter, but pure energy which responds to our vibrations and to our frequencies.

~ Stephen Richards

Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.

~ Stephen Richards

To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.

~ Stephen Richards

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back to you, reflecting what it is you sent out.

~ Stephen Richards

...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...

~ Steve Keen

Manifesting your desires requires an understanding of the universe’s abundance and inherently giving nature. If you ask from a position of fear or desperation, you are sending out your fear and desperation, and the universe, giving, reflecting, and non-judgmental as it is, will send those right back at you.

~ Stephen Richards

Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.

~ Stephen Richards

But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.

~ Susane Colasanti

Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but vibrating at different frequencies), then you must respect yourself and everything and everyone around you.

~ Stephen Richards

Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.”“Oh, you found someone else? With less money?

~ Vivian Arend

Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself - clothes upon the body of his son.

~ Pearl S. Buck

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

~ William Shakespeare

The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy, it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.

~ Henry Hazlitt

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

~ James Garfield

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away.

~ Shay Olivarria

Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

~ Caryll Houselander

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?

~ Michael Lewis

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.

~ Toba Beta

she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

~ Eleanor Brown

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

~ Ben Elton

On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his heart, that Siddhartha began to play the game for money and precious things, which he at other times only joined with a smile and casually as a custom of the childlike people, with an increasing rage and passion. He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes. He played the game due to a pain of his heart, losing and wasting his wretched money in the game brought him an angry joy, in no other way he could demonstrate his disdain for wealth, the merchants' false god, more clearly and more mockingly.

~ Hermann Hesse

A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

There’s no such thing as free kittens.

~ Brian P. Cleary

Americans like to make money, Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

~ Northrop Frye

Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What was missing was not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called 'money.' It was akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth lamenting that she couldn't bake a cake because she didn't have any ounces. She had butter, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar, she just didn't have any ounces, any pinches, any pints. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

~ Tom Robbins