Quotes About Money

You're lucky. You've got money—enough money to rescue, and to choose who you rescue—and you want the satisfaction of exercising that power. And yet there's another side to it. There's my admitting, my having to admit, that if I'd led a better, more orderly life, I wouldn't be in this position

The harm is in whom this system makes powerful. If value is no longer vested in gold, but in the promise of gold, then the men who make the promises hold ultimate power. If money and gold are one and the same, then gold defines value, but if money and paper are the same, then value is based upon nothing at all.

I fear we face a new kind of man along with this new kind of affluence. When lands meant wealth, men could perhaps have enough. Too much land was difficult to govern. But with paper money, more is simply more. In France, you know, where they suffer from their own financial mania, they have a word - the millionaire - to denote men whose wealth is measured in the millions. Millions. It is inconceivable, but there are more than a few men who hold this title.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

We couldn't outspend the fossil fuel industry - they have more money than God.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

Justice is useful when money is useless.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Every dollar that is printed should not represent a debt to private bankers. It should represent an investment potential in the common good, in the common needs of our country.