Quotes about money
money ambition insanity
Robert Green Ingersoll All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.
money character men
Robert Green Ingersoll Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man. . . . In judging of the rich, two things should be considered: How did they get it, and what are they doing with it? Was it honestly acquired? Is it being used for the benefit of mankind?
money kings sunshine
Robert Green Ingersoll We all know that men in moderate circumstances can have just as comfortable houses as the richest, just as comfortable clothing, just as good food. They can see just as fine paintings, just as marvelous statues, and they can hear just as good music. They can attend the same theaters and the same operas. They can enjoy the same sunshine, and above all, can love and be loved just as well as kings and millionaires.
money jobs couple
Richard Widmark Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.
money art stars
Rudyard Kipling And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
money lying ifs
Rudyard Kipling But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.
money men yesterday
Samuel Johnson Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
money men affluence
Samuel Johnson It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.
money tree fruit
Samuel Johnson Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
money men thinking
Samuel Johnson It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.
money
Samuel Johnson Whatever you have spend less.
money home house
Samuel Johnson No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
money judging dont-judge-me
Samantha Bee Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
money cost wealth
William Hazlitt We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
money men next
William Hazlitt Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
money people secret
William Hazlitt The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
money men devil
W. Somerset Maugham The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
money thinking important
W. Somerset Maugham Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
money people speak
W. Somerset Maugham He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
money robbing financial-advisor
Willie Sutton I rob banks because that's where the money is.