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Quotes About Priorities

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.
~ Steven Van Zandt
Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.
~ Unknown
Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.
~ Michel de Montaigne
There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.
~ Edward Snowden
Money is only important when you don't have any.
~ Sting
I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.
~ Heather Dubrow
With money, who needs friends?
~ Frank Gorshin
When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.
~ Anthony Trollope
Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.
~ Warren Buffett
Boxing is good for the livelihood but mainly, money don't really mean nothing.
~ Muhammad Ali
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
~ Horace
Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.
~ Doris Lilly
I've been in a situation where I was after the money.
~ Morris Chestnut
We each focus on what we're going to buy, but that's an incorrect focus. Focus instead on why you want to spend the money on this or that. What feeling in you does it satisfy?
~ Suze Orman
To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
~ Mason Cooley
The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.
~ Robbie Fowler
It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.
~ Robert Wyatt
Few are aware that they want any thing, except pounds schillings and pence.
~ Augustus William Hare
I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
~ Natalie Wood
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!
~ Babe Ruth
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
~ Ted Turner