A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.
The substitute for knowledge is money.
I’ve looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
Free Trade puts consumers at the centre of economic activity. It lowers the cost of imports, which gives people the opportunity to buy more with the same amount of money: domestic producers have to compete with the lowest global costs or invest in new business.
Money looks better in the bank than on your feet.
Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.
If I ever make a lot of money in the NBA, I’m going to have this massive tank, and it’s going to have an alligator in it.
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
Washington’s a cesspool of money.
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.
Research indicates that most women want their man to earn more than they do.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Financially, I’ve lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
If you are in the world of business, that means you are in the business of making money.
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
It’s only money, honey.
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.
I’m not broke. Like everybody else, I owe money.
We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights.
If money was being invented now, it wouldn’t be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.
It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.
Money is often a matter of chance or good fortune and is not the mark of a successful life. It is not the thing that brings a throb of pleasure or a thrill into my life. And I would not pose as a successful man if that were to be the measure.
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you’re free – however free one can be on this planet.
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don’t want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I’m building. I am privileged to play golf for a living – look around St Andrews, that’s my office.
Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.
I just save my money, man. I don’t even try to enjoy it like these other rappers; they having fun and they lit, but they gon’ be broke later on. I be savin’, I be chillin’. It feels good to know I got it, but it feel better to know I’ma keep it too.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
There can be nothing without love. No money, no power. Love is very important. When you wake up in the morning, you need to know that somebody else is waking up, thinking of you.
I really admire Airbnb as a pioneer of the sharing economy and for building community. They’ve found an elegant way to help hosts make more money and for guests to have authentic experiences. It brings those people together in a unique way.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
It takes a great person to walk away from money.
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
I have a fantastic relationship with money. I use it to buy my freedom.
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
What really broke it down was I had my son while I was locked up, so that really affected me. I can’t really have this, knowing my father was locked up when I was small. So that really out of everything – through the fame, the money, everything – that really put the toll on me: ‘Oh yeah, I gotta change.’
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.
Talking about money is garish. It’s tacky.
Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
No man should be in public office who can’t make more money in private life.
Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it’s about how many peoples’ lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights – for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
You’ve got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.
I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Don’t worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
Money is being made programmable. That’s a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
