Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‚Is that a $20 million take?‘ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

Money has a language of its own.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

I don’t care about money.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

It was the money from ‚Star Wars‘ and ‚Jaws‘ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.