Quotes About Money

“Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?”
― Jarod Kintz

“Everyone wants 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.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert

“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
― Albert Einstein

“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
― Groucho Marx

“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within

“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.”
― Tupac Shakur

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like.”
― Will Rogers

“With all the money my uncle embezzled over the years, it's no surprise he lives in a gated community. But what is amazing, however, is that he somehow managed to get his own cell.”
― Jarod Kintz, It Occurred to Me

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Beauty is a whore, I like money better.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

“Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. ”
― Ann Landers

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“I don't care if your dad is the Sultan of Brunei. You happened to be born into a privileged family. What you do with that truth is completely up to you. I'm here because I want to be with you. But if I didn't, all the money in the world wouldn't have changed my feelings for you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”
― Tennessee Williams

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
― Harry S. Truman

“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded
wheelchair.”
― Dorothy Parker

“People who want to make a million borrow a million first”
― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan

“We do need a system, and we do need you and your 'Bertos, and sometimes we need Sam to just come along and kick some ass. - Quinn”
― Michael Grant, Lies

“Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
― Rita Davenport