Quotes About Money

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

Judas needed the money for a sick friend.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Only sick music makes money today.

The present is all the ready money Fate can give.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.