Money Quotes

"I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously."

"As a precious metal, silver is also money."

"There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'"

"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."

"I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."

"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."

"Always remember this. Television, fame, money - listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead."

"It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money."

"I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well."

"To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world."

"Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing."

"I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us."

"Taxpayers have long memories, especially when it comes to how their hard-earned money is spent."

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

"A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank."

"Assets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket."

"Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites."

"Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day."

"Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased."

"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."

"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."

"Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream."

"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."

"To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell."

"Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people."

"Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money."

"Money has to serve, not to rule."

"You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem."

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."

"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."

"Remember that credit is money."

"We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval."

"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."

"My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect."

"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem."

"I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about."

"Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?"

"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."

"The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm."

"I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don't have a short-term payback."

"Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy."

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."

"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace."

"I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movement of money."

"I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different."

"I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'"

"Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information."

"I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow."

"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."