Quotes About Money

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids

I've got enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I die about four o'clock this afternoon.

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth!

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

The secret to a happy life is to run out of cash and air at the same time.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.

Church tax exemption means that we all drop our money in the collection boxes, whether we go to church or not and whether we are interested in the church or not. It is systematic and complete robbery, from which none of us escapes.

Antiques and Oriental rugs tell people that my mother may be a dog breeder who dropped out of Bryn Mawr, but she's got power—because she's got money.

but she's got power—because she's got money.

Io amo la Morte... non per morbosità, ma perché spiega. Mi mostra la vanità del Denaro. Morte e Denaro sono gli eterni nemici. Non Morte e Vita. Non importa quello che c'è dietro la Morte, signor Bast, ma stia certo che il poeta, il musicista e il vagabondo saranno in essa più felici dell'uomo che non ha mai imparato a dire: io sono io.

the system which is in control in Argentina and most of the world is nothing less that the best democracy which money can buy, allied with drug trafficking and organized crime. The sad conclusion, then, is that the worst which this "democracy" has in store for us is corrupt government; the best it has to offer is government by millionaires.

Money lost -- little lost. Honour lost -- much lost. Pluck lost -- all lost.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

I have no profession. It is another example of my decadence. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that so long as I am no trouble to any one I have a right to do as I like. I know I ought to be getting money out of people, or devoting myself to things I don't care a straw about, but somehow, I've not been able to begin." "You are quite fortunate, it is quite a wonderful opportunity, the possession of leisure.

They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.

Mr. Ansell was not merely a man of some education; he had what no education can bring — the power of detecting what is important. Like many fathers, he had spared no expense over his boy, — he had borrowed money to start him at a rapacious and fashionable private school; he had sent him to tutors; he had sent him to Cambridge. But he knew that all this was not the important thing. The important thing was freedom.