Money Quotes

"Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet."

"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."

"I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war."

"You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept."

"International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places."

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

"Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable."

"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."

"If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."

"Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege."

"Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it."

"It's good to put money back into communities."

"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."

"If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be."

"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money."

"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."

"One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success."

"Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement."

"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."

"I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it."

"Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!"

"A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it."

"Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son."

"Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed."

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?"

"To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes."

"You must spend money to make money."

"I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em."

"That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him."

"Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy."

"When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money."

"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives."

"Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it."

"The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge."

"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

"The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none."

"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears."

"I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference."

"People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life."

"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."

"It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us."

"This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum."

"I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money."

"You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal."

"All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return."

"Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network."

"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money."

"When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things."