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Quotes About Money

Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free.
~ Jacqueline Susann
You know how many more rich Negroes there'd be if we wasn't all the time trying to pay off some lawyer or bailing a brother out. That's one thing I'm truly guilty of--giving hard-earned money to the man.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
First our desire for money is never satisfied. Our pursuit of money is infinite. We can never say: this is enough.... There is never any limit, since in order to set a limit or a stopping point, one would need self-control and wisdom. And if one had these at the outset, he would not have had such a passion for money.
~ Jacques Ellul
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin ' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.
~ Jacques Pepin
Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.
~ Unknown
Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
~ James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
~ James A. Garfield
He wanted to make a copy to send back to his sister – the one who'd been smart enough to finish college and was working for Weyland-Yutani as a forensic xenobiologist. She made disgustingly good money. Still, he got laid a lot more often. It was all a matter of perspective.
~ James A. Moore
He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.
~ Unknown
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.
~ James Arthur Baldwin
When government is small and relatively weak, the most effective way to make money is to start a successful private-sector business. But the larger the size and scope of government spending, the easier it is to make money by diverting public resources.
~ Unknown
Later, she calculated that the dead men's flight alone had cost over sixty-eight thousand dollars. "What if," she asked, "somebody had simply invested that amount in their villages to begin with?
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Las instituciones de seguridad se han deteriorado por los efectos combinados del dinero de los traficantes, la ausencia de una ética de servicio a la ciudadanía y la irresponsabilidad política de partidos y gobernantes pasados y presentes.
~ Unknown
It always hurts the gringo more to lose his money than his life.
~ Luis Valdez
Vedi? Il denaro non lo puoi rovesciare: comunque lo giri ti mostra sempre una faccia.
~ Unknown
A penny saved is better than a penny earned.
~ Unknown
Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran.
~ Unknown
There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings by dead men, lit so carefully that warmth seemed to emanate from within - and not because their art was loved or understood but because it could be sold and bought for handsome sums.
~ Lydia Millet
Money makes the world go around love makes the spin worth the ride
~ Unknown
Because there's a big difference between happiness and joy. Happiness is external and can change when your circumstances change. If you believe that money will make you happy, for instance, and then you lose all your money, you'll be very unhappy. But joy is deep inside us and isn't dependent on circumstances.
~ Lynn Austin
Only the rich, he said not a little bitterly, can afford to act like income does not matter.
~ Lynn Cullen
Sports is all about money.
~ Lynn Samuels
Professional sports is a business.
~ Lynn Swann