Money quotes

Discover the wisdom of financial success and explore the complex yet powerful dynamics of money through our curated collection of insightful quotes.

Once a year, every branch of this government meets in a room and announces what they intend to waste taxpayer money on.

- Ron Swanson

There are only three ways to motivate people: money, fear, and hunger.

- Ron Swanson

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

- Theodore White

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

- Red Grange

The players wanted more money, higher salary caps and they didn't have that family relationship we felt with the players. Mentally, the players were more businesslike.

- Guy Lafleur

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

- Wilhelm Steinitz

A fool and his money are soon parted.

- Thomas Tusser

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

- Kristen Johnston

I need the money. People don't understand how little money you make in a band.

- Evan Dando

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

- Andrea Dworkin

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

- William J. Clinton

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

- Rose Kennedy

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

- Tony Campolo

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

- J. Irwin Miller

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

- Jim Harrison

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

- Patricia Ireland

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

- David Packard

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.

- Pete Fountain

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.

- Gina Gershon

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

- Harriet Ann Jacobs

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

- Matthew Broderick

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

- Donna Rice

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

- Neil Simon

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

- Toni Morrison

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

- Phyllis George

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

- Edith Wharton

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

- George Best

The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around 20,000 pounds. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child.

- Daniel Hannan

Money often costs too much.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

- Jeb Bush