quotations about money
Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.
DONALD TRUMP
How to Get Rich
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
It is money, or rather the want of it, which makes men workers. It is the appetizing provocative that teases the business nerve of more than half the world; while most of the results of ingenuity, skill, intellect, tact, address, and competition, depend upon its unremitting pursuit. Want of money is the great principle of moral gravitation, the only power that is strong enough to keep things in their places. It is this scantiness of means, this continual deficiency, this constant hitch, this perpetual struggle to keep the head above water and the wolf from the door, that keeps society from falling to pieces. Let every man in the community have, as a rule, a few dollars more than he wants, and anarchy would follow.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères
Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
"Nationalsozialisten aus Berlin und aus dem Reich", Voelkischer Beobachter, February 4, 1927
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
FRED ROGERS
"Mister Rogers' Money Tips", The Motley Fool, January 20, 2006
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain's Notebook
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Paris Review, winter 1997
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money -- That's what I want.
BERRY GORDY & JANIE BRADFORD
"Money (That's What I Want)"