Quotes for Money

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Kevin O'Leary

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Will Rogers

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Alice Walker

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Don Marquis

The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course, not all fictions are shared by all humans, but at least one has become universal in our world, and this is money.

Yuval Noah Harari

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Marlon Brando

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

Ray Romano

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Gertrude Stein

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

John Wooden

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.

James Baldwin

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day.

P. J. O'Rourke

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Milton Berle

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

Sam Altman

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Billy Graham

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

Johnny Cash