Money Quotes

"Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away."

"A fool and his money are soon elected."

"Words are the money of fools."

"My hacking was all about becoming the best at circumventing security. So when I was a fugitive, I worked systems administrator jobs to make money. I wasn't stealing money or using other people's credit cards. I was doing a 9-to-5 job."

"Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live."

"Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money."

"The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure."

"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."

"As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it."

"If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward."

"Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in."

"Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money."

"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."

"I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?"

"I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows."

"You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money."

"Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency."

"Our goal isn't to make money. Our goal absolutely at Apple is not to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal, and what gets us excited, is to try to make great products."

"I like money, but it's never been about the money."

"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

"I have a father who came from nothing and conquered the world. The last thing I'm going to do is sit here and spend his money and try to look pretty. That's not interesting to me at all."

"There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them."

"With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised."

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."

"My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it."

"The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous."

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

"I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else's money."

"There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto."

"Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right."

"The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default."

"Money without brains is always dangerous."

"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

"Money doesn't talk, it swears."

"All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money."

"My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen."

"The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once."

"At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things."

"Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac."

"Time is money."

"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."

"According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it."

"I collected child support in Dade County, and they wrote a rap song about me, so the kids knew about it, and they started asking me questions about child support. What happens if she wastes the money? What happens if he doesn't pay? And I answered the questions."

"Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money."

"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."

"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."

"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."

"I have ways of making money that you know nothing of."

"Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself."