Money Quotes

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

~ C. Wright Mills

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

~ Leland Stanford

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

~ Benjamin Franklin

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

~ Spike Milligan

A film like 'Good Night And Good Luck,' you make that for $7 million because you know it's a black-and-white film, and it's not an easy sell. If you make it for $7 million, then everybody can have a chance to make a little bit of money, and you get to make the film you want to make.

~ Grant Heslov

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

~ Alex Gibney

I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was heading that way. Then, my brother passing away was the final thing that kicked me over. It reminded me that life is short, and you'd better do what you want while you have a chance.

~ Mark Ruffalo

It is not about the money. It's the public service aspect. Absolutely, I think it has qualities of redemption. The city gets a second chance. I get a second chance.

~ John Rowland

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

~ Charles M. Schwab

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

~ Barack Obama

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

~ Gary Lineker

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

~ Juicy J

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five books and had zero films made. Take the money and be thankful.

~ Matt Haig

Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?

~ Ben Shapiro

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

~ Mother Teresa

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

~ Kim Basinger

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

~ Joel Osteen

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

~ Tertullian

Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

~ Hakeem Olajuwon

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

~ Bell Hooks

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

~ Louis L'amour

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

~ Thomas Sowell

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

~ Daymond John

Money is not a fund of knowledge.

~ John Kluge

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

~ Gary Neville

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

~ Henry David Thoreau

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

~ Yehuda Berg

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

~ Jim Carrey

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

~ Bernadette Peters

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

~ Robin S. Sharma

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

~ Mo Ibrahim

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

~ Donald Rumsfeld

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

~ John C. Maxwell

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

~ Jarvis Cocker