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Quotes About Money

It is credit that matters, not money (in other words, monetarism is a false ideology).
~ George Soros
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
~ Karl Marx
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
~ Linus Torvalds
Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
~ Jerry Della Femina
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
~ Jack Kevorkian
To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.
~ Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
~ Bill Lipinski
That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."
~ Ace Hood
I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
~ Elayne Boosler
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
~ Mark Twain
They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.
~ Gene Siskel
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
~ Napoleon Hill
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
~ Josh Billings
Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money's guest.
~ Norman O. Brown
We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.
~ Corrine Brown
No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.
~ Matt Corby
People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.
~ Bryn Terfel
Unlike the days of the gold standard, it is impossible for the Federal Reserve to go bankrupt; it holds the legal monopoly of counterfeiting (of creating money out of thin air) in the entire country.
~ Murray Rothbard
Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.
~ Romany Malco
If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.
~ Josiah Stamp
As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
~ William S. Burroughs
Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.
~ Daniel Webster