Top 100 Money Was Quotes
#1. They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.
Douglas Wilson
#2. I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
John Perkins
#3. Money was spiritual indemnity against some unspecifiable future loss. It existed in purest form in his mind, my money, a reinforcing source of meditation.
Don DeLillo
#4. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#5. I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
Tippi Hedren
#6. The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal
#7. Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. Some
Colson Whitehead
#8. If English money was of the same value then as before, Hamburgh money must have risen in value. But where is the proof of this?
David Ricardo
#9. - and the mocking realization that money was just colorful crumpled paper, hardly different from a candy wrapper, the market itself little more than a casino.
Paul Theroux
#10. the strongest predictor of who got the money was not the person's credentials or the content of the pitch. The strongest predictors of who got the money were these traits: confidence, comfort level, and passionate enthusiasm.
Amy Cuddy
#11. I still think that going in on that Friday afternoon and spending that money was one of the happiest experiences of my life.
Jen Campbell
#12. Money was not the root of all evil, it was just a vehicle that got you to power.
J.J. McAvoy
#13. I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
Alan Hansen
#14. All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.
Mickey Gilley
#15. When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#16. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#17. Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
Paul Theroux
#18. The money truck caught on fire and some of the money was burned, but we took what we could and later I made it a payday for everyone. I still have some of those burnt notes and someday I will cash them in for some good ones. The
Ali Ahmad Jalali
#19. The documents inbox138 described a world in which money was everything- not just the means of sustaining life but the purpose of living it. ... If that was how the old world worked--if that was all they really cared about--maybe it was better that it had fallen apart. Maybe it was inevitable
Dan Wells
#20. Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
John Ray
#21. The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.
Sasha Frere-Jones
#22. Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.
P. J. O'Rourke
#23. Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
Katarina Witt
#24. The big leap that happened to me and my business came to me when one of my rules disappeared ... So much of what we believed about money was complete bullshit. An old rule that we'd been carrying around for years suddenly vanished.
Vishen Lakhiani
#25. He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#26. The great point about money was to convert it as quickly as possible into something you could use or enjoy.
Elspeth Huxley
#27. A man once told me, money was the pathway to success; he was the poorest man i know.
Nikki Rowe
#28. The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War to end, and for the English to go away - as soon as their money was spent. And that the clause about the money was always repeated in case God should miss it.
Robert Graves
#29. I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I've learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, 'cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick Lamar
#30. Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.
Neil Gaiman
#31. It was like robbing a bank: getting the money was only half the job. Then you had to get away with the money.
Ransom Riggs
#32. Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than
Tim Shaw
#33. This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
Jack Kilby
#34. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Donald Trump
#35. Money was invented as a lubricant for the barter system, but we're way overdue for a lube and oil change.
Daniel N. Robinson
#36. Owing money was the beginning of slavery ... a creditor was worse than a boss, for a boss only owns your person but a creditor owns your dignity and can slap it around.
Victor Hugo
#37. Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#38. When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something.
David Halberstam
#39. The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don't want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.
Trevor Noah
#40. As a lawyer, money was my driving force. As the years passed, I accumulated more but was less happy.
Robin Sharma
#41. That's why she felt entitled to be filthy rich. It explains and excuses a lot. She didn't want money because money was power; she wanted it because she'd been poor, and money cures poverty. [ ... ] But beauty is like money from God. And Mom has always been beautiful.
Sean Wilsey
#42. The problem was that the government's appetite for money was so great that taxes soon needed to be levied on the middle class, and from there it kept trickling down.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#43. When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
#44. So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen
#45. If all of the money was gone from my life,
Would you still love me?" a man asks his wife.
"Of course," she replies. "Come here, let me kiss you.
I'll love you forever, but boy would I miss you!
David Rakoff
#46. When you finally strip away all the material things in your house and closets, you realize how much time and money was spent wasted on things that you never really needed in the first place.
Simon Ruddy
#47. Money was invented
so we could know exactly how much we owe.
Cullen Hightower
#48. What would you do if money was no object?
Alan Watts
#49. I wasn't one to usually show off Lucy and Ethel because I was self-conscious of them, but money was money.
Mariana Zapata
#50. The first record I bought with my own money was Rio.
Thomas Lennon
#51. The allocation of research money was a political act.
Tom Clancy
#52. Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.
Aristotle.
#53. The PIRA were clients, and their money was good, which was all that mattered, for he was never a man to make judgments. Sitting opposite
Jack Higgins
#54. You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.
The god of money was also the god of spies.
Marie Rutkoski
#55. I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
Hillary Clinton
#57. Money was the only measure of worth, for everyone, they got no respect as mothers.
Margaret Atwood
#58. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
Tom Robbins
#59. When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.
Loretta Young
#60. The reason I do this job is because I started to be a painter. Making money in art was difficult. The easiest way to make money was to use art for some other reason. One of the easiest and most interesting from an economic point of view was fashion. Fashion pays.
Franco Moschino
#61. Sit down and make a list of the answers to these two questions: Ask yourself, if money was no concern and you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do? If you would still do what you currently do, then you are in dharma, because you have passion for what you do
Deepak Chopra
#62. The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.
Gary Calamar
#63. I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.
Richard Branson
#64. Money was important, but really only because it afforded opportunity for my family and me. With money, we were healthier, we were less stressed, we had more time, and we enjoyed life.
Gregg Russell
#65. I wondered if we were doing him a favor. The Galton household had hot and cold running money piped in from an inexhaustible reservoir. But money was never free. Like any other commodity, it had to be paid for.
Ross Macdonald
#66. I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
Natalie Babbitt
#67. To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game
Ken Follett
#68. anyway, the money was great, but the corporate world just wasn't to my liking. i guess i'm not a team player--or an ass-kisser.
Douglas Preston
#69. If I don't sell any copies of my books/apps or if I sell a million copies, I'm still going to continue making them. I create because I'm passionate about the craft, making money was never the motivation.
Greg Pugh
#70. I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative.
Matt Kuchar
#71. The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .
William Gibson
#72. The way the money was spent ensured that Spain's newfound wealth provided the entire continent with a monetary stimulus.
Niall Ferguson
#73. You want car?' Rena said. 'Artist college? You think I don't know? How you think you pay? So this dress. Pretty dress. Someone gave. But money is ... ' She stopped, struggling to find the words, what money was. Finally, she threw her hands up. 'Money. You want remember, so just remember.
Janet Fitch
#74. The money was nothing, not even one tenth of one percent of his worth.
Neil Hetzner
#75. I bought a Hummer before I bought a house, and then I bought a house. Every year, everything doubled. The work was doubling. The money was doubling. The popularity was doubling.
Gabriel Iglesias
#76. Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.
Geoff Capes
#77. The first thing I did with the prize money was to buy a paddy field for Apa. He would no longer be a landless farmer in an agricultural society.
M.C. Mary Kom
#78. But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.
David Cronenberg
#79. If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.
Placido Domingo
#80. Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.
Robert Vaughn
#81. Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.
John Lanchester
#82. I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
Boy George
#83. Money was not a living thing. It wouldn't run off anywhere if he left it alone. Probably.
Haruki Murakami
#84. It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.
Richard Gere
#85. In her daydreams, they aged miraculously, she still trim with a blond ponytail, standing next to her strong, tall husband with his thick, curly dark hair and straight white teeth. Money was never an issue.
Karen Jones Gowen
#86. Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character.
J. Christopher Herold
#87. Why were the bad people doing that? Because of Money. Money was invisible, like Fuck. They thought that Money was their helper; they thought he was a better helper than Fuck. But they were wrong about that. Money was not their helper. Money goes away just when you need it. But Fuck is very loyal.
Margaret Atwood
#88. What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.
Dougray Scott
#89. A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.
Warren Farrell
#90. 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.
Wayne Dyer
#91. Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.
Aristotle.
#92. I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.
Margaret Atwood
#93. Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?
Kurt Vonnegut
#95. I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
Bob Hope
#96. I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.
Cherie Lunghi
#97. Ben understood at last that money was one big dragon, with a billion dollars for a head, and a penny on the tip of its tail. It had as many voices as there were men and women, and it captured all who were fools enough to listen to it all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#98. One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa.
Roseanne Barr
#99. The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy drinking and could be always relied upon to make a break of at least twenty-five even with a bad cue.
Flann O'Brien
#100. I can't remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it.
Stephen Richards
