Money Quotations

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

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

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're making more money than your wife.

Every society in every period does or doesn't talk about certain topics. We don't discuss money much; it's almost certain that most people don't know how much their colleagues earn. The Victorians, in contrast, were very happy to discuss money. They weren't, however, happy to discuss sex.

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

I worked for a charity for a while, but... well, I started acting while I was in high school. I kind of just got lucky enough to live at my parents' house until I was actually making enough money to be somebody's roommate.

After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business.

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?

You will never catch up with the spread of AIDS no matter how much money, no matter how many antiretrovirals are put into the system, unless you stop its growth. And the only way to stop its growth is prevention.

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

From the time I was very young, I was a professional, making money and assuming responsibilities. I didn't live the life of a child. I was living the life of a 30-year-old.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.

I hate plastic bottles. Just think about it before you buy one. We pay more for a gallon of water than we do for a gallon of gas. I think people will realize that water quality standards in most municipalities are as good or better for the stuff coming out of the tap than bottled water companies. You'll save money and save the environment, too.

Money is... I'm very conscious of it because I have it. It's powerful, man. It can change you ever so slightly, ever so slowly, and all of a sudden you're addicted to a million-dollar lifestyle and you've got no choice but to make a bad movie.

The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.

That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money?

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

There's broad recognition that you really have to put the money where people are going to self-manage.

At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid.

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.

For me, relationship is very important. I can lose money, but I cannot lose a relationship. The test is, at the end of a conversation or a negotiation, both must smile.

Wind to a sailor is what money is to life on shore.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

I'm a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don't waste money.

I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.

If I make money, I'm happy. Even if I lose money, I'm happy.

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

I'm not really a betting person. I work too hard for my money to give it away.

A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family.

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money.

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.

We didn't have lawyers and accountants. No one was watching out for our money. We'd go to the office and get money and go on our way. I was 19-20 years old then. I was stupid. I didn't know any better. We weren't getting our fair share of the money. That happens to young musicians all the time. It makes me mad when I think how stupid we were.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

With Yowza there are no games, you don't have to check in or become the mayor or go back home and redeem anything online - you will always press one button, show the coupon at the register and save money. It's as simple as that.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.

Money isn't something I play for. I want to compete. I want to win.

For the good producer, raising capital is about the last thing to worry about. If you're good, the money comes very easily.

If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.

If you look hard at it, if you look hard at the bleeding heart attitude to always throw money at issues, throw money at problems, what you're in fact probably saying is you're exercising a prejudicism of low expectations.

When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics.

Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I don't think business news is just for old white men with money.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Ask any parent what we want for our children, and invariably we say 'a better life.' To that end, we give our time, our sleep, our money, and our dreams, much as our parents did before us. We all want a better life for our children. But what we want for them ceases to matter if we leave them an unlivable world.

My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.

I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.

We are now after 7 months operation making money here.

But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.