Money Quotes

Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.

~ Roman Payne

Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product.

~ Manoj Arora

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

~ Margaret Atwood

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

~ Henry A. Wallace

This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children’s faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.

~ Paul Leppin

And don't tell me debt is not a big deal. Debt will cut off your legs and laugh at you as you grovel in the dirt begging for mercy. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you can't afford it, don't get it. If you're already in debt, get out quickly. If you think you'll never get out, you're right, you won't.

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

They do say money is the root of all evil.I thought that was supposed to be the love of money.There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

~ Jamie O'neill

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the fool's gold controls the fools.

~ Orrin Woodward

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven – Bertie’s age – the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. (All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.)

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

~ Sophie Kinsella

There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

~ Roderick Townley

Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.

~ Steven J. Lee

Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.

~ Stephen Richards

When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.

~ Stephen Richards

Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.

~ Stephen Richards

Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.

~ Stephen Richards

Max would conclude, that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.

~ Richard Russo

I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.

~ Solange Nicole

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~ Michael Mayhem

Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.

~ Stephen Richards

Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.

~ James Kelman

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way.

~ Raymond Chandler

A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

~ Stephen King

No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?

~ Honoré De Balzac

The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

~ Georg Simmel

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

~ Paul Kyriazi

I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My wardrobe jam-packed! My girl, this is not the way for an old woman to behave - particularly since you never wear anything but black and white, or a little grey, so that you always look as though you were in the same dress. Why fritter away your money so absurdly? (22 August 1919)

~ Liane De Pougy

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

~ Horace

The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.

~ Amy Dacyczyn

It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.

~ Vicki Robin

Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.

~ Toba Beta

Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.

~ Ralph Nader

It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.

~ Barry Unsworth

Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it! This is truly a golfer’s dream.

~ Lorii Myers

Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepest and most comprehensive book about money in some time. I applaud him for it. It calls for a serious reading.

~ George Kinder

Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.

~ Toba Beta

Customer is king. I am his treasurer.

~ Toba Beta

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.

~ Mitch Mcconnell