Money - Quotes & Sayings

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

John Grisham

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

There's a time in everyone's career where you go, 'Ah, this is hard - how long am I going to have to do this?' But the rewards are so great. Who gets to go on the podium and hear the national anthem? The whole nation singing! Money can't buy you that.

Mo Farah

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

Craig Bruce

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

Edith Head

My dad worked all sorts of jobs when I was growing up and finally ended up as a surveyor; my mum delivers meals to old folk around where we live. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, but I had a very happy childhood.

Michelle Dockery

People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.

Patti Smith

I don't spend money on the lavish life, but I spend on excessive green juices.

Riley Keough

You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

Eli Broad

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Dick Armey

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Dennis Washington

If you believe in what you're doing, you're going to make money. When you question it, you won't.

Marilyn Manson

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Suze Orman

There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.

Lil Uzi Vert

I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.

Bob Uecker

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Tom Cruise

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

John Wesley

Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.

Charles M. Schwab

When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.

Johnny Van Zant

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

Doyle Brunson

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

Robert Harris

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

Theodore Parker

I love money because I've earned it. I won sixty G's with my first knockout - and the week before, I was collecting social welfare.

Conor McGregor

Do you know how many athletes go broke three years after they stop playing? I want to help them hold on to their money. I mean, I know about budgets.

Jay-Z

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.

Justin Bieber

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

Mark Cuban

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Ray Bradbury

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

Ray Bradbury

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

Jack Ma

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Jack Ma

No record company in the world would say, 'We're not promoting if you keep calling somebody a snitch.' They know what makes money. A record company would never be that stupid. Ever.

Cam'ron

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.

Dave Chappelle

You know, if a band on a label sold a few hundred thousand copies of their record these days, they wouldn't make any money. But if a band can pump out 10 million copies of a record for free, and 50,000 of those fans come to the band's website to watch pay-per-view videos or buy a t-shirt, that's roughly $10 million in revenue per year.

Tom DeLonge

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

Mignon McLaughlin

I have always spent my time more preciously than my money.

Nathan Phillips

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

Bobby Heenan

I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any money on me.

Mickey Rooney

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

Tiger Woods

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.

Dennis Crowley

Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

Dale Dauten

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Kevin O'Leary

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Molly Ivins

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Paul McCartney

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Sydney J. Harris

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.

Marilyn Manson

No man's credit is as good as his money.

John Dewey

I placed too much importance on comparing how much I had to others early on. Then I started realizing time was a far more valuable asset. When I started using money to create more time, I appreciated both more.

Mark Cuban