Money Quotes

“When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.”

“Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”

“You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.”

“My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.”

“Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.”

“The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of development are out of the question.”

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

“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”

“Success must never be measured by how much money you have.”

“But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.”

“If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.”

“Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.”

“Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”

“This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.”

“He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.”

“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

“That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.”

“The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.”

“The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!”

“They call it the Latin Quarter because nobody there is Latin and nobody has a quarter.”

“Many people say, "When I get a million dollars, then I'll be happy because I'll have security," but that's not necessarily so. Most people who acquire a million dollars want another and then another. Or they could be like a good friend of mine who made and lost every dime of a million dollars. It didn't bother him a bit. He wasn't excited about it, but he explained to me, "Zig, I still know everything necessary to make another million dollars, and I've learned what to do not to lost it. I'll simply go back to work and earn it again.”

“The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.”

“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.”

“It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.”

“When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”