Money Quotes

(Regarding check-cashing places):It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.

~ Angela Nissel

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.

~ Alain De Botton

If money management isn't something you enjoy, consider my perspective. I look at managing my money as if it were a part-time job. The time you spend monitoring your finances will pay off. You can make real money by cutting expenses and earning more interest on savings and investments. I'd challenge you to find a part-time job where you could potentially earn as much money for just an hour or two of your time.

~ Laura D. Adams

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

~ Christina Stead

Money, money, money! I think about money morning, noon and night! I dare say it's mercenary of me, but there it is

~ Agatha Christie

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

~ Tim Wu

America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again.Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback.

~ Bill Bryson

The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

~ Terry Pratchett

The first rule in making money is not to lose it.

~ Steven J. Lee

Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.

~ Steven J. Lee

Up before sunrise. Marjorie hated getting out of bed in the dark, but loved the payoff once she was dressed and rolling down the country roads in the first light, cruising and owning them almost alone. The countryside here used to be a lot more interesting, though. She remembered it in her girlhood - orchards, small ranches, farmhouses, each one of these houses a distinct personality... Money, she thought wryly, scanning the endless miles of grapevines, all identically wired and braced and drip-lined, mile after mile - money was such a powerful organizer.As the dawn light gained strength, and bathed the endless vines in tarnished silver, it struck her that there was, after all, something scary about money, that it could run loose in the world like a mythic monster, gobbling up houses and trees, serving strictly its own monstrous appetite. (The Growlimb)

~ Michael Shea

Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.

~ Emma Frances Dawson

Restraining, saving, assuring your checkbook balance...what does all taht amount to? If I go broke one day I'll just take out loans

~ Novala Takemoto

The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

~ George Soros

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came, it has the glorious scent of what will be.

~ Catulle Mendès

And, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.

~ Angela Carter

Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.

~ Elizabeth Gunn

And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.

~ Robert Harris

Tearing money is an impiety, like throwing away bread.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

~ Jude Morgan

The money is mine, not yours,” Reginald reminded her. “You ungrateful wretch. I found you an earl to marry, and your son will be an earl.”“You chose yourself a son-in-law,” Regina said. “You traded me for a title.”“You will thank me—”“—for dying and leaving me in peace.”“You will regret those words some day.”“I can manage the regret, if not my own finances.

~ Patricia Grasso

Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?

~ Ana Monnar

An old liar told me hereTo think ahead and save my money.I should have spent it on ribbons.I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather playedWhen the daft wife heard him resoundingIn the deep pine woods in early November.

~ Menzies Mckillop

Riches draw friends as corpses draw vultures

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Money here on Earth is more than the paper or the metal that you use for money, more than the rows of figures that account for money. Here on Earth you have given money a symbolism such as no medium of exchange has anywhere else I have ever known or heard of. You have made it a power and a virtue and you have made the lack of it despicable and somehow even criminal. You measure men by money and you calibrate success with money and you almost worship money.

~ Clifford D. Simak

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

~ Richie Norton

Every cent you own and every moment you spend is always an investment.

~ Natalie Pace

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

~ Natalie Pace

Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold onto it like a blanket. They don't realize it makes them slaves. It's sick.

~ Emma Cline

Those who master money are free to serve others still mastered by it.

~ Orrin Woodward

Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.

~ Richie Norton

Money cannot buy the moments of grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your strength is your wealth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Money is like a river. It flows where the conditions are conducive to its flow.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

But these were essentially the accoutrements that appeal to all people who are not actually rich but who want to look rich, though all they manage to do is look like each other: damasks, ebony, plants, rugs and bronzes, anything dark and gleaming-everything that all people of a certain class affect so as to be like all other people of a certain class. And his arrangements looked so much like everyone else's that they were unremarkable, though he saw them as something truly distinctive.

~ Leo Tolstoy

You can either love money or live moment. It is better to live in the moment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A brand-new tape recorder, completely worn out. Bought with funny money that the store is willing to accept. Worthless money, worthless article purchased; it has a sort of logic to it.

~ Philip K Dick

Wealth does not consist of having a lot of money or possessions, but to be content with little needs.

~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches

If you make everything solely about money you end up with a very poor society.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

In the past people used to rob banks, now the banks rob the people.

~ David Alejandro Fearnhead