Quotes About Money

Prometheus had been foolish to bestow fire on men instead of selling it to them: he would have made money, placated Jove, and avoided all that trouble with the vulture.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having all our money.

You'd be surprised what people will do for money that they wouldn't do for love. Myrnin.

If we would divert to constructive research even a small fraction of the money spent each year on the development of ever more toxic sprays, we could find ways to use less dangerous materials and to keep poisons out of our waterways. When will the public become sufficiently aware of the facts to demand such action?

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets

He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money.

She distrusts those who prefer power to money

highly successful history of bribing public officials

and about two hundred thousand dollars' worth of rings.

Money's neither dirty nor noble. It's a neutral substance, an inevitable part of civilization.

Life insurance proceeds and the sale of two houses

Is it worth something?" "At retail, from a collector, it would bring forty thousand dollars, maybe a few thousand less.

I took the thirty thousand. Julius paid twenty-nine thousand with a check and gave me a thousand in cash

it contains a zippered pouch holding forty thousand dollars in hundreds and twenties.

He puts the pouch with forty thousand dollars in the trunk

The wood of the porch is the weathered gray that high-end designers strive to achieve for wealthy clients and that the poor endure because they lack money for paint.

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime

He believed in only five things—violence, sex, money, snakes, and intuition—and he believed in them profoundly, passionately.

I lend you a thousand bucks to pay for a date with myself. I let you talk me into wearing a damn tuxedo. The least you could do is hold my hand.' - Paul van Dorn

Newspaper columnist Dave Barry once wrote that the motto of the wedding industry is, 'Money can't buy you happiness, so you might as well give your money to us.

It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else.