Famous Quotes & Sayings

We put a lot of money on the table. Do they want it or don't they?

We put all our money in this. It's a very entrepreneurial decision.

We played for everything -- money, booze, food. We didn't have that much money back then, so we didn't play for much.

We don't ever turn money down. We never ever say no to a pay raise.

Jesse Ventura

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

Jean de la Bruyere

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

Jean Anouilh

In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.

Jay Leno

There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

Buzzie Bavasi

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Budd Schulberg

You know what's wrong with our waterfront? It's the love of a lousy buck. It's making the love of a buck, the cushy job, more important than the love of man. It's forgetting that every fellow down here's your brother in Christ.

James Earl Jones

Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.

Jaron Lanier

If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

Janet Flanner

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhypocritical fact that the most important thing on earth to men today is money.

Jane Bryant Quinn

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who spend everything they get. This is probably the oldest financial advice in the world, but there are some things you can't improve on.

Jane Bryant Quinn

You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.

Euripides

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Errol Flynn

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.

Francois Rabelais

I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

George Chapman

Make ducks and drakes with shillings.

Chris Rock

Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a ... window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'

Chris Rock

We got no wealthy black people. We got rich people. Shaq is rich. The guy who signs his checks is wealthy.

Chris Rock

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

Gertrude Stein

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Gertrude Stein

Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.

Havelock Ellis

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Hal Holbrook

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

Gretchen Rubin

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Horace

Get money first; virtue comes after.

Horace

He who is greedy is always in want.

Herman Melville

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

Herman Melville

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Henry David Thoreau

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.