Quotes on Money

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

You can print money to bail out a bank, but you can't print life to bail out a planet.

Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the money to pay the redundancies of workers they can no longer afford to employ. Many of these grand Victorian buildings will be turned into flats that most people will never be able to afford.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.

money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.

I am only a child. Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be.

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.

In America, people with lots of money can easily avoid the consequences of bad bets and big losses by cashing out at the first sign of trouble.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don't know. That just wasn't in my DNA.