103 Money Quotes and Sayings to Ponder Over
Presented by Twinty Karat
Listed here are Money Quotes, Proverbs, and Sayings that were collected from various sources. Use them, applaud them, reject them or just plain ignore them. Just remember many of these quotes are what other people, usually famous people, think about money, some recent some old quotes. Even though it may be different from how you may feel about money each quote probably has a history or experiences that give the quote it’s special meaning from whatever its source.
Money Quotes
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. ~ Bob Hope
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A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction. ~ Mae West
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~ Yogi Berra
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A penny saved is a penny earned. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ~ Jonathan Swift
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An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. ~ Marilyn Monroe
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ~ Charles Dickens
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Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money. ~ Robin Williams
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. ~ Walt Disney
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Dogs have no money. Isn’t that amazing? They’re broke their entire lives. But they get through. You know why dogs have no money? .. No Pockets. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
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Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. ~ James W. Frick
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Early to bed, early to rise, keeps you healthy, wealthy and wise. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ~ Robert W. Sarnoff
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For I can raise no money by vile means. ~ William Shakespeare
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For I don’t care too much for money, for money can’t buy me love. ~ The Beatles
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, Sing as if no one is listening, Love as if you have never been hurt, and Dance as if no one is watching ~ unknown
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Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. ~ Ronald Reagan
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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He who marries for love without money has good nights and sorry days. ~ Anonymous
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Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. ~ Mark Twain
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money. ~
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I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. ~ Robert Bosch
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I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful. ~ Marilyn Monroe
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. ~ Warren Buffett
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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
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I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money. ~ David Lee Roth
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I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. ~ Walt Disney
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If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy. ~ Proverb
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. ~ Dorothy Parker
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ~ Ben Franklin
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it. ~ Steve Jobs
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It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white… the only color that really matters is green. ~ Family Guy
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It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. ~ George Lorimer
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It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up. ~ Steve Jobs
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I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given. ~ Mother Teresa
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Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. ~ Mother Teresa
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil. ~ Henry Fielding
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have ~ Will Rogers
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Money doesn’t grow on trees ~ Proverb
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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~ Groucho Marx
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~ Woody Allen
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Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it. ~ William Somerset Maugham
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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. ~ Kahlil Gibran
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. ~ Jackie Mason
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference. ~ Barack Obama
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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. ~ Ayn Rand
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Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. ~ Ayn Rand
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Money is the best deodorant. ~ Elizabeth Taylor
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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. ~ Rebecca Johnson
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Money is usually attracted, not pursued. ~ Jim Rohn
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Money isn’t everything – but it’s a long way ahead of what comes next ~ Edmund Stockdale
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. ~ Owen Laughlin
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Money often costs too much. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. ~ Donald Trump
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Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail ~ Richard Friedman
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Money will come when you are doing the right thing. ~ Mike Phillips
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Money without brains is always dangerous ~ Napoleon Hill
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. ~ Helen Gurley Brown
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did. ~ James Arthur Baldwin
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. ~ Steve Jobs
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Never spend your money before you have earned it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. ~ Warren Buffett
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. ~ Lew Wallace
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Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation. ~ Steve Jobs
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Remember that credit is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. ~ Warren Buffett
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So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money? ~ Ayn Rand
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The art is not in making money, but in keeping it. ~ Proverb
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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. ~ Sir Henry Taylor
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ~ H. L. Mencken
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. ~ Katharine Whitehorn
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. ~ Thomas Jefferson
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The lack of money is the root of all evil. ~ Mark Twain
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The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. ~ Warren Buffett
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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. ~ Kin Hubbard
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The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money. ~ IRS auditor
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There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. ~ Oscar Wilde
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Time is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. ~ Jim Rohn
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ~ Albert Einstein
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Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. ~ Will Smith
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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much ~ Ronald Reagan
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. ~ Barack Obama
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. ~ Seneca
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us. ~ Julia Cameron
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~ Oscar Wilde
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While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery ~ unknown
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With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution. ~ Steve Jobs
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you. ~ Maya Angelou quotes
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You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~ Ruth Smeltzer
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You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me. ~ Steve Jobs
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You reach a point where you don’t work for money. ~ Walt Disney
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You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren’t allowed to be normal. ~ Johnny Depp
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