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Money Quotes


"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."


"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."


"Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money."


"Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money."


"The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while."


"Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in."


"Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it."


"There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty."


"Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist."


"Skating everywhere is unpredictable, no amount of money or facilities is going to create a skating star. You have to have a skater who is dedicated, passionate, and willing to learn."


"The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any."


"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."


"Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship."


"Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight."


"I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money."


"The money was good while it lasted. The best part was clearly that it changed my view of what's possible, as far as thinking how you can have an impact on a national level."


"I'm going to win so much money this year, my caddie will make the top twenty money winner's list."


"False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons."


"Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money."


"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could."


"I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is."


"Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money."



"Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets."


"I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15."


"But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference."


"No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money."


"There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich."


"I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos."


"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."


"There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."



"The greatest power is not money power, but political power."
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