Quotes About Money

How can well-educated, high-income people be so naive about money? Because being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing.

Money and not morality is the principle of commerce and commercial nations.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

After watching what has happened over the past fifty years in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and seeing the money that is to be made from such ventures, I wonder if the adage should have a corollary: 'Those who understand the lessons of history are only too happy to repeat them.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

Money! Ho, ho! 'T'as been my want so long, 'tis now my scoff. I've e'en forgot what colour silver's of.

He would sell his soul if he knew what merchant would lay out money upon't; and some of 'em have need of one.

No remedie there was but I must helpe to furnish him with monie, I did so, as who wil not make his enemy a bridge of golde to flie by.

War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home; the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditure.

a government which cannot preserve the peace, is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honour. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labour and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

And a government which cannot preserve the peace is no government at all, and in that case we pay our money for nothing;

She didn't have enough patience to try to explain to Christine the proper way to think about money. Among the old people, a person's status had never been determined by how much wealth he could accumulate, but how much he brought back to give away.

The company's working capital is the amount of money left over after you subtract current liabilities from current assets. Current Assets – Current Liabilities = Working Capital

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.

She roller-set Lizette's hair before she went out on her "money dates" (You're for sale—just fucking say it…).

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

while money couldn't always buy you happiness, a lack of money always brought anguish.

obscene wealth, was often more of a curse than a blessing.

Yes, we have some cash.

Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.