Top 100 No Money Quotes
#1. Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.
Miyamoto Musashi
#2. How does a boot to the groin region sound?" A quick smirk. "I'll even pay you." Tommy feigned shock. "Jeez, no wonder you're making no money. Your customer service is lousy.
Jennifer Lee Thomson
#3. My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
Jack Dangermond
#4. I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.
Rob Sheffield
#5. No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked.
Michael Lewis
#6. If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
George Orwell
#7. If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.
Ernest Hemingway,
#8. There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.
Robert Graves
#9. I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just
there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.
Anna Nicole Smith
#10. My writing has always been considered extremely important, even though I make slim-to-no money at it.
Kate Zambreno
#11. Some people have a lot of time, but no money--
It's because they don't work hard enough.
Some people have a lot of money, but no time--
It's because they don't work smart enough.
The most successful people have both.
Bob Sharpe
#12. There was a little movie I did called 'Women In Trouble' that a friend of mine made. That, to me, was a very satisfying project. It was shot so quickly during the writer's strike, and there was no money. It was a really fun project.
Sarah Clarke
#13. My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.
Ali MacGraw
#14. You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
J.K. Rowling
#15. There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.
Brian Andreas
#16. It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
Albert J. Nock
#17. Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave
you may be given the opportunity.
Pat Heim
#18. The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won.
Sam Altman
#19. I am 13 years old, I am 13 stone, I have no money, no friends, and boys throw gravel at me. It's my birthday, and I went to bed at 7.15pm.
Caitlin Moran
#20. I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
Nathan Fillion
#21. How come we have money to kill but no money to feed or heal? How come we have money to destroy but no money for art and schools? The
Eve Ensler
#22. I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket.
Mickey Edwards
#23. You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
Amy Heckerling
#24. I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
Ricky Gervais
#25. For where shall a man turn who has no money? Where can he go? Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand. Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther. Only money can make the rope stretch, only money.
Kamala Markandaya
#26. It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.
Antonio Banderas
#28. I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.
Lucy Liu
#29. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
Ray Bradbury
#30. Being a pioneer can be damn lonely, too early, no money, tough, endless, stupid," Samwer said. "And that healed us. Since then, we basically say, Fuck you. We don't care whether you think we are not smart enough to invent something.
Frank Sennett
#31. I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles lived
But there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.
Friedrich Holderlin
#32. I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.
Martin Mull
#33. Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
Dakota Goyo
#34. I didn't have to see this big clock on the wall and worry. Most of the record I made was experimental. If you have a lot of time to do that you don't have to worry about the money, plus, I had no money. It was more out of necessity than choice.
Daniel Powter
#35. There's no money in that," said Will. "Farmers don't make any money. It's the man who buys from him and sells. You'll never make any money farming." Will knew that Cal was feeling him, testing him, observing him, and he approved of that.
John Steinbeck
#36. Figure it out!" We always had to figure it out, so you can, too! We didn't have the luxury of people explaining why I couldn't use my left hand or why his family had no money. We just figured it out. But love is a funny thing.
Eddie Huang
#37. I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I had some ugly clothes growing up, and I never had any privileges. In some ways, I think the person that I am now, I think it's good that I had that kind of tough upbringing.
Amy Chua
#38. A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.
Ernst Junger
#39. She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.
Nikki Rowe
#40. Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.
Elon Musk
#41. It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.
Margaret Thatcher
#42. People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.
Jasmine Guinness
#43. I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#44. A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy.
John C. Goodman
#46. When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
William J.H. Boetcker
#47. What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.
Francis Of Assisi
#48. It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.
Zora Neale Hurston
#49. It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.
Bode Miller
#50. People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.
Michael A. Stackpole
#51. Money can't replace friendship, I'd rather have no money than losing you.
Patrick Star
#52. (The coconut tree was a machine: a solar-powered, self-building factory that required no maintenance and cost no money - a clean-running, noiseless manufacturer of useful things. In went soil, air, and water; out came food, drink, fuel, building materials, rope, medicine, and, yes, pillows.)
Peter Rudiak-Gould
#53. I think I'm wealthy. I make a good living for what I do. Well, it depends. If I'm doing an independent film I'm making no money - probably losing money. But if I'm doing a studio film, I'll make a decent wage. I can live for a year without working.
Eric Stoltz
#54. He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith and the will to win.
Napoleon Hill
#55. (why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)
Nell Zink
#56. What's success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No, money for the most part turns people into jerks.
Chris Sacca
#57. If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
Robert Graves
#58. You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people ... that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.
Keith Haring
#59. The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!
Gunther Schuller
#60. Many people who get a lot of money are willing to work with me for no money. This is true.
Woody Allen
#61. I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
Edgar Allan Poe
#62. America has always fascinated me; it's a country where you can make it from one side to the other with no money, by hook or by crook.
Joe Dempsie
#63. Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
Mignon McLaughlin
#64. I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.
George Armstrong Custer
#65. You're an honest girl and you have no money. Poor thing. Guess there's nothing we can do about it IS THAT WHAT YOU THOUGHT I'D SAY? PEole are not that nice in the real world. Stupid! Kurosaki
Kyousuke Motomi
#66. I had no money to start,
For Jack decreed in his pride:
The Caveman's wife didn't work -
It was his job to provide.
A brief reminder right here:
Let men believe they are shrewd,
But even women of old
Embroidered mittens for food.
Joyce Rachelle
#67. But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.
Donald Sutherland
#68. I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.
Francisco Costa
#69. Why should Cornishmen learn Cornish? There is no money in it, it serves no practical purpose, and the literature is scanty and of no great originality or value. The question is a fair one, the answer is simple. Because they are Cornish.
Henry Jenner
#70. I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
Paloma Faith
#71. Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free.
Brian Joyce
#72. You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.
Vilmos Zsigmond
#73. I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
Neon Hitch
#74. Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.
Renny Harlin
#75. There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
Zach Galifianakis
#76. Newton expected no money from establishing his originality but rather desired recognition for his excellence.
Tyler Cowen
#77. I'm a girl from Sweden. I took a lot of risks and went to New York by myself when I was 19 just because I read about it in a few books. I came here knowing nobody, having no money, and now I'm doing all these things like making records and videos every day.
Lykke Li
#78. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller
#79. Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.
Hunter S. Thompson
#80. I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.
Lance Armstrong
#81. You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
Newt Gingrich
#82. I guess HBO did a giant 'War in the Pacific' mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.
Adam McKay
#83. Those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.
James Surowiecki
#85. Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed.
Marc Faber
#86. When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
Jenny Joseph
#87. It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.
P. J. O'Rourke
#88. There should be no money involved. I need to be an equal,
Abbi Glines
#89. Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.
Renee Zellweger
#90. There is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money.
John Steinbeck
#91. To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
Ezra Pound
#92. No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.
Iggy Azalea
#93. Even when I had no money, I spent everything I had on clothes.
Natalie Cole
#94. When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
Anna Kendrick
#95. A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo
John Hartford
#96. I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
Victoria Principal
#97. No money, no church service, no eulogy,no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit. p 354
Abraham Verghese
#98. I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.
Steve Martin
#99. People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.
Harry Triguboff
#100. They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.
Terry Pratchett
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