Top 48 Quotes About Giving Away Money
#1. So if you're black or brown, you can make money in America, you can get rich in America ... but whatever you decide to do, it better be positive, 'cause if one person is harmed, you will be destroyed. You see Oprah, she just be giving away money. She's doing that to keep the Feds off her back.
Chris Rock
#2. So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
David Dinkins
#3. I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
Anais Nin
#4. Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#5. People will pay exactly what things are worth give or take a few bucks. You might pay a few bucks more if you like the dealer and think the dealer will take care of you, but most people are going to the internet and don't care about that. I don't think that hard earned money is given away.
Paul Reed Smith
#6. I gave away the money advanced from my record company on my first album, I'm the type of person who likes to give. I gave to my sister. She has four little babies and bought an old house and it needed repairs.
Jo Dee Messina
#7. It is with charity as with money
the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#8. I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.
T. Boone Pickens
#9. I give away about 50 percent of my income, so my, you know, desire to give back to the country is pretty strong and I intend to give away a lot more. I've signed the giving pledge with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, and I intend to give away the bulk of my money.
David Rubenstein
#10. [R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.
Doug Bandow
#11. I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.
David Rubenstein
#12. Once we understood that we were giving away God's money to do God's work, we discovered a peace and joy we never had back when we thought it was our money!
Randy Alcorn
#13. Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.
Peter Diamandis
#14. Love isn't like money
the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.
S.M. Stirling
#15. I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
Muhammad Ali
#16. I never really had an itch for gambling. I work hard for my money, so I don't like going out and giving it away like that.
Amanda Righetti
#17. I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university.
Chuck Feeney
#18. When you look at Regis, he really and truly does feel for those people, and I feel like I've done it too. You're giving away somebody else's money so what do you care? It's not your money.
Wink Martindale
#19. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.
Mark Skousen
#20. I always thought that I would spend the first half of my life making money so I can spend the second half of my life giving it all away. And one of the defining moments of my life was when I realized that I could do both at the same time with TOMS.
Blake Mycoskie
#21. Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It's okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It's just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don't squander a single minute of it.
Cassandra King
#22. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts for squirting out babies.
Andy Rooney
#23. I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.
Lee Iacocca
#25. It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
Andrew Carnegie
#26. Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.
Debasish Mridha
#27. If you earn a lot of money, you can give away a lot of money.
Peter Singer
#28. Money is not the only commodity that is fun to give. We can give time, we can give our expertise, we can give our love or simply give a smile. What does that cost? The point is, none of us can ever run out of something worthwhile to give.
Steve Goodier
#29. I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just bothers me. And, when one band or artist gives it away, it devalues the rest of the product from those who would like to make some money or a living from it.
Steve Mahoney
#31. It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.
Bill Gates
#32. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
Voltaire
#33. I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.
Ray Dalio
#34. I want people to be inspired to do what's in front of them. If you won't give a dime out of a dollar, don't talk to a billionaire about giving their money away because if you don't give a dime out of a dollar, I can promise you, you're not going to give a 100 million out of a billion. It's a lie.
Tony Robbins
#35. Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. Never loan money, you're not reading or willing to give away.
Marshall Sylver
#37. I enjoy giving money away. The more you give, the more you get.
Michael Hintze
#38. I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?
Frank Deford
#39. Anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.
Daisy Goodwin
#40. My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.
Orel Hershiser
#42. If you can build a company and make money, great. But eventually, my intention is to give all my money away. I told my kids that. [Wealth] is not particularly helpful to kids. It's almost a burden. It's better to allow them to do their own thing and have their own successes.
Steve Case
#43. There are moments that cry out to be fulfilled. Like, telling someone you love them. Or giving your money away, all of it. Your heart is beating, isn't it? You're not in chains, are you? There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.
Mary Oliver
#44. I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
John D. Rockefeller
#45. Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Lillian Hellman
#46. Money does all things,
for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.
Roger L'Estrange
#47. Once handed the money, Paulson abandoned his promised strategy and instead essentially began giving away billions of dollars to Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and a few others unnaturally selected for survival.
Michael Lewis
#48. There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money from the people who have earned it and giving it away to the people who haven't, in exchange for their votes and regardless of merit, is the essence of fairness.
Conrad Black
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