Quotes About Money

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.

Always borrow money from a pessimist... He never expects to be paid back.

In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time.

The money's no better in retirement but the hours are!

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Drawing on her humanist readings of Karl Marx, Grace urges us to analyze not only the material forms of inequality caused by capitalism but also the dehumanization and spiritual impoverishment inherent in a society dominated by money relations.

Mail', from the Old Norse 'mal', meant 'tribute' or 'rent' – which was sometimes paid in meal or grain – while 'black' was the common collective noun for cows, bulls and oxen, which were usually black. 'Grassmail' was money paid to a landowner for grazing rights; 'blackmail' paid for the protection and recovery of cattle.

No evil equals no plot equals no movie equals no money. Thus the paradox: while we convince ourselves we are good (or at least not depraved), our most powerful art form is built upon the revelation that this is a lie.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

if you don't work on traffic generation every day, then you're not running your business effectively, and you're falling prey to the 80–20 rule. So, you need to spend 80% of your time working on the actual tasks that will make the most money.

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.

Expert witnesses are like whores, but more expensive." Rayner

We constantly lived in the paradox of precariousness. The money was never there when you needed it, and it was always on time.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Driving a brand new car feels like riding around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.