Quotes on Money

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

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

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

I came to realize that my money problems, worries, and shortages largely began and ended with the person in my mirror. I realized also that if I could learn to manage the character I shaved with every morning, I would win with money.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

Money always ends up making you blue.