Best Money Quotes of AllTime

Everyone has their own opinions about money. Here are 145 opinions, mostly by people with fame. Some are funny, some are inspirational, and some are just in your face obvious. We’ve listed the quotes in no particular order, but put some of the ones we like best at the very top. Enjoy!

1 - Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money. ~Satchel Paige

2 - The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ~Frank Hubbard

3 - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to. ~Bob Brown

4 - We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. ~Ronald Reagan

5 - 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 Arthur Baldwin

6 - Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money. ~Unknown Author

7 - Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have. ~Will Rogers

8 - Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time. ~Jim Rohn

9 - There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. ~Jack Yelton

10 - If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. ~James Goldsmith

11 - We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. ~Gloria Steinem

12 - There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either. ~Robert Graves

13 - Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping. ~Bo Derek

14 - No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. ~Michael Pritchard

15 - I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ~Louis Agassiz

16 - Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ~Jim Rohn quotes

17 - Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. ~Henry David Thoreau

18 - My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. ~Errol Flynn

19 - I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

20 - No one can earn a million dollars honestly. ~William Jennings Bryan

21 - Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. ~Author Unknown

22 - Inflation hasn’t ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

23 - Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. ~Helen Gurley Brown

24 - I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. ~Mark Twain

25 - They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money. ~George Savile, Complete Works, 1912

26 - When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart. ~John Wesley

27 - It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

28 - Money often costs too much. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

29 - After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world. ~Pam Shaw

30 - The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown

31 - Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb

32 - The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments. ~Mad Magazine

33 - What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. ~Seneca

34 - I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

35 - If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ~Dorothy Parker

36 - Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have. ~Ernest Haskins

37 - The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. ~Evan Esar

38 - If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. ~J. Paul Getty

39 - Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty. ~Leo Rosten

40 - No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

41 - I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. ~Jackie Mason

42 - There are no pockets in a shroud. ~Author Unknown

43 - Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. ~Michael Leboeuf

44 - Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. ~Albert Einstein

45 - There are people who have money and people who are rich. ~Coco Chanel

46 - Money is a headache, and money is the cure. ~Everett Mámor

47 - This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. ~Douglas Adams

48 - Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills. ~Clifford Odets

49 - There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, “Life and Human Nature,” Afterthoughts, 1931

50 - It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy. ~George Horace Lorimer

51 - “Your money, or your life.” We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

52 - Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing

53 - A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. ~Bob Hope

54 - God is on everyone’s side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. ~Jean Anouilh

55 - Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam

56 - Always borrow money from a pessimist, he doesn’t expect to be paid back. ~Author Unknown

57 - If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. ~Author Unknown

58 - Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. ~Robert Orben

59 - Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving. ~Dan Millman

60 - Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there’s no such thing as exactly enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

61 - It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. ~Albert Camus

62 - My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. ~Abraham Lincoln

63 - Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail” ~Richard Friedman

64 - If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson

65 - Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen

66 - I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ~Joe Louis

67 - Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions. ~A.A. Latimer

68 - Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ~J. Paul Getty

69 - We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to. ~Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1727

70 - When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire

71 - A bank book makes good reading - better than some novels. ~Harry Lauder

72 - Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. ~Kay Ingram

73 - There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we count ourselves among them. ~Mignon McLaughlin

74 - Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~Author Unknown

75 - When a fellow says it hain’t the money but the principle o’ the thing, it’s th’ money. ~Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard, Hoss Sense and Nonsense, 1926

76 - The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. ~M.W. Harrison

77 - If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

78 - Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

79 - They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. ~Kahlil Gibran

80 - I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention. ~Ron Kittle, 1987

81 - If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. ~Henry Fielding

82 - It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx

83 - We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. ~Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

84 - We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~Buzzie Bavasi

85 - A man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as well as under a pile of money. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

86 - There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. ~Robert Benchley

87 - Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband. ~H.L. Mencken

88 - When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde

89 - The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ~Jean-Paul Kauffmann

90 - Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg

91 - Money is like a sixth sense - and you can’t make use of the other five without it. ~William Somerset Maugham quotes

92 - I am having an out of money experience. ~Author Unknown

93 - If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

94 - Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

95 - The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. ~Oscar Wilde

96 - I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. ~Hilaire Belloc, “Fatigued,” Sonnets and Verse, 1923

97 - Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale. ~Zig Ziglar

98 - Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. ~Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851

99 - Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money - or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. ~Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912

100 - Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw

101 - When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

102 - People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson

103 - October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894

104 - 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, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

105 - He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends. ~William Shakespeare

106 - Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, “Hosts and Guests,” 1918

107 - If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. ~George Gobel

108 - I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted. ~Amory Lovins

109 - He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher

110 - By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. ~Author Unknown

111 - In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he’s a wonder. ~Author Unknown

112 - Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. ~Henrik Ibsen

113 - Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. ~Benjamin Franklin

114 - How quickly nature falls into revolt. When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers. Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry. ~William Shakespeare

115 - Those who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way. ~George J.W. Goodman, The Money Game

116 - A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897

117 - Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services. ~Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 1943

118 - Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. ~Author Unknown

119 - I hire tea by the tea bag. ~Martin Amis, on renting the essentials of life after breaking up with a lover, Money: A Suicide Note (Thanks to bartleby.com for verifying the details of the source.)

120 - Lack of money is the root of all evil. ~George Bernard Shaw

121 - Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857

122 - If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. ~Henry Ford

123 - We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. ~Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923

124 - A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way. ~Mark Twain

125 - A woman’s mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

126 - Money doesn’t talk, it swears. ~Bob Dylan, “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”

127 - The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. ~Author Unknown

128 - A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra

129 - It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ~Oscar Wilde

130 - Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master. ~Alexandre Dumas fils, Camille, 1852

131 - To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

132 - If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. ~George Bernard Shaw

133 - Inflation is taxation without legislation. ~Milton Friedman

134 - It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

135 - If the nation’s economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. ~Arthur H. Motley

136 - Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. ~From a Washington Post word contest

137 - Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale

138 - A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ~W.C. Fields

139 - Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value. ~The Quote Garden

140 - Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God. ~Logan Pearsall Smith

141 - But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver’s glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

142 - We ought to change the legend on our money from “In God We Trust” to “In Money We Trust.” Because, as a nation, we’ve got far more faith in money these days than we do in God. ~Arthur Hoppe, 1963

143 - Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891

144 - I just can’t stop myself; I’m addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner. ~Jim Cramer

145 - A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. ~Larry Elison

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