Quotes About Money

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

Price is what you pay and value is what you get.

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.

It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.

[The] stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

In brief, we spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have-the time their children need.

Their successful husbands had learned that earning money led to love. Because it did. However, earning money didn't sustain love. As women were becoming more in touch with and sharing what was bothering them, their husbands were often burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets would miss. The more successful they were, the more they learned to repress their feelings, not express their feelings.

Money was also allocated for historical research, a worship anthology called Women's Words, and an AIDS outreach ministry.

Now I'm hiding in Honduras/ I'm a desperate man/ Send lawyers, guns and money/ The shit has hit the fan — lyrics from Lawyers, Guns and Money song. Copyright © Warren Zevon 1978

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.

would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.

Another time, as they walked down Lexington Avenue together, Trump saw a newspaper headline announcing the arrest of a New Jersey mayor for allegedly taking an $800,000 bribe from a developer. "There is no goddamn mayor in America worth $800,000," Trump bellowed. "I can buy a U.S. senator for $200,000.

They can't afford to solve the issues because they've turned the conflict itself into profit.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

Sure thing, just tell'em and let them decide on loving you back or not, it won't be none of your business and if you you ain't got no money be sure to let it all out, it ain't their business.

I just had plastic surgery: They cut up all my credit cards. Except for my Discover card, which nobody takes.

No," Ray says. "He's getting paid in magic beans. Of course he's getting real money!

Every lawyer told me, "We'll get him out." But they were just lying so I would keep paying them.

America, we started to learn about debit cards, credit cards, credit history, credit scores.

As a child I experienced a lot of betrayal. One time I ran into my babysitter, and she was with another kid. They were holding hands, and the kid wasn't even cute. And I recently found out my babysitter was only with me for the money.

I've been pinching our pennies so tightly that Abraham Lincoln's face is imprinted on my fingers.

If you just send me the tuition money for summer session, I'll . . ." "No." "What?" Clearly it had never occurred to him that his request might be refused.