Quotes About Money

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.

Let me tell you, that's what taxation is - it's confiscation. It's your money, it's not the government's money. But the government makes you think that it all comes from them.

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I never met any.

Football and gambling - two great American addictions working together. What could possibly go wrong?

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Happiness is more important than money any day.

I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

Spending on oneself does not boost wellbeing. However, spending money on others does -- and it appears to be as important to people's happiness as the total amount of money they make.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.

As far as I'm concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy. - Momofuku Ando