Top 100 That Money Quotes
#1. I wish I'd said it first, and I don't even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.
Mignon McLaughlin
#2. People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.
Brent Weeks
#3. Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you!
Denis Waitley
#4. You've been spending money again," Lily murmured as she felt Cade's arms tighten around her. "I spent a lifetime saving that money until I had someone to spend it on. I think I've found what I was looking for." Lily
Patricia Rice
#5. Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings.
Eric Hoffer
#6. Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.
Andrew W.K.
#7. In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
Elena Kagan
#8. I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags
Nicki Minaj
#9. The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#10. I was trying to spend it as quickly as possible. Because I'm so lazy, all that money created a block. I was flying around the world, staying at fancy hotels, having fun and trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible, so I could get on with some more work.
Evan Dando
#12. My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right.
James McBride
#13. I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.
Dave Chappelle
#14. People who say that money isn't the most important thing in the world are usually broke.
Malcolm Forbes
#15. I'd like to see Manhattan underwater. I'd like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody's buying them. I'm excited about that. Money and desire - all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
Hayao Miyazaki
#16. Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
Ron Chernow
#17. Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.
John Lee Hooker
#18. The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.
Ogden Nash
#19. You would say that he felt that money had made him holy.
V.S. Naipaul
#20. My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash from Karlheinz Schreiber. My biggest mistake in life was pretending that I wasn't trying to avoid paying taxes on that money.
Brian Mulroney
#21. Someone once said to me that success isn't everything and I think I know what they really meant. I believe what they really meant was that money wasn't everything and I certainly agree with that. But I do believe that success IS everything.
Jim Rohn
#22. I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.
Dat Phan
#23. took that money and flipped it into a 70-unit complex in Huntsville. I paid
David Lindahl
#24. I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.
Robin Sacredfire
#25. I know some people are offended by the fact that I'm spending a lot of money trying to win the America's Cup. I could have given all that money to charity.
Larry Ellison
#26. If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
Robert Duncan
#27. I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.
George Presbury Rowell
#28. My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#29. The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.
Rolf Potts
#30. The main concern of the frame is that money be kept in the common wealth (or the hands of the government) in order to be used for the common good. HOW
George Lakoff
#31. I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese
#32. The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.
Marilyn Monroe
#33. Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns
or dollars. Take your choice
there is no other.
Ayn Rand
#34. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G.K. Chesterton
#35. Another very important aspect of the Protestant teachings is that money is simply a by-product, a natural consequence, a compensation, it is never the goal.
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?
Ogden Nash
#37. Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea.
James Hillman
#38. Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.
Carlos Santana
#39. What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Paul Ryan
#40. Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Edward Abbey
#41. People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.
Anthony Liccione
#42. I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.
Mark Shields
#43. Ultimately it all comes down to money, ultimately it all comes down to lab capacity. One thing we are clear about is if that money were to pass (in Congress), thousands of lives will be saved.
Chris Asplen
#44. I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
Errol Flynn
#45. Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
Andrew Mellon
#46. But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.
Susane Colasanti
#47. Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you.
Jim Sullivan
#48. It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors.
Bill Scott
#49. One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For
Yuval Noah Harari
#50. I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.
Paulo Coelho
#51. It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it.
Karl Marx
#52. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
#53. 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
#54. It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
Zhang Xin
#55. Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock
#56. One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.
Sacha Guitry
#57. And if, for some awful reason, you forget that money is a game, a make-believe concept that some people invented, you could be led back into the complex layered world of Should. And here, the loss isn't a financial one. You are the cost. Is it worth it?
Elle Luna
#58. Saddam Hussein ... I believe is involved with this World Trade Center and Pentagon bombing. I believe that you're going to find out that money from Iraq flowed in and helped this happen.
Bill O'Reilly
#59. I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
Naomi Campbell
#60. In the United States, 25 percent of all Medicare spending is for the 5 percent of patients who are in their final year of life, and most of that money goes for care in their last couple of months that is of little apparent benefit.
Atul Gawande
#61. Money is the root of all goodness. To talk disparagingly about money is the privilege of those who have money. There are also those people who state matter-of-factly that "money isn't everything". This statement is also true, but only so long as one has money.
Charles Willeford
#62. We say that money talks, but it speaks a broken, poverty-stricken language. Hearts talk better, clearer, and with wider intelligence.
William Allen White
#63. Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
Louis Kronenberger
#64. The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
Hillary Clinton
#65. Ben Carson seems pretty proud that he knows how big the Medicare budget is. All that money goes to the private sector, but Carson seems to think the private sector would do a lot better if ... something. I'm not quite sure what.
Ted Cruz
#66. What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.
Paulo Coelho
#67. When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.
Buck Baker
#68. Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
J.G. Ballard
#69. 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
#70. Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
Arnold Bennett
#71. There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.
Perry Brass
#72. In the long run, it's not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It's how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.
Peter Lynch
#73. I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.
George Best
#74. I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.
Bobby Fischer
#75. If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.
Jonathan Frid
#76. People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
Tony Abbott
#77. The freedom that money gives you makes you ... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.
Paloma Faith
#78. To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
Charles Caleb Colton
#79. Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
#80. You have comfort. You don't have luxury. And don't tell me that money plays a part. The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have NO Fear or Discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
#81. My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
Rand Paul
#82. You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.
Rick Scott
#83. I can't promise you that money will bring you happiness, because it didn't do it for me.
But the lack of it, for sure, will bring you unhappiness.
Money buys you options and security. Without options and security your soul cannot soar and be free.
From my Upcoming book
Celso Cukierkorn
#84. Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear of being in the luxury tax.
Jason Terry
#85. He thinks of making his fortune. We all know that money sticks to yours hands.
No, It passes through them, alas.
Hilary Mantel
#86. Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.
William Stringfellow
#87. Doing things for others is something that money cannot buy it is a priceless act which gives an abundance of worthy feelings for both involved, to empower others and to know that others care is an key part of listening, the stoppage of wars, the foundations of a hopeful future for everybody.
Paul Isaacs
#88. Sure, you make money writing on the coast ... but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
Dorothy Parker
#89. Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.
Nancy Levin
#90. Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
Christina Romer
#91. You who are in power have only the means that money produces - we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
Alexandre Dumas
#93. These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other ... but we need that money.
Mike Tyson
#94. Money talks. And throwing that money around shuts everyone else up.
Ripley Patton
#95. If you wanna look good and not be bummy, girl you better give me that money
Aooow ...
Ol' Dirty Bastard
#96. The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.
James Hansen
#97. Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.
Louie Gohmert
#98. If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#99. It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#100. With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
Bill Maris
