Money quotes

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.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Money does not change people, people change.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

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

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 doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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 money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

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

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

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

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

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.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

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

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

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

A fool and his money are soon elected.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Money often costs too much.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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

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.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.