Quotes on Money

The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country - and getting there was my gold medal.

If you have the money and you find the one player who can make you win and make the difference, no matter how expensive he is, you should do it. But there are not many players in the world who will make a real difference.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

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

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Economic inequality is systemic, and one of the most effective barriers is ignorance about how money works beyond the basics.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

People 'demand' the opportunity to gamble away money they do not have, just like people 'demand' money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates. This is a warped, empty type of freedom, in which the powerful are free to exploit the vulnerable.