money quotes

Encapsulating big ideas in few words, we combined the best quotes on money, money making, and money spending by famous authors, financiers, historical figures... and people who had tons of it. They will change your general attitude towards money -- inspiring, encouraging and motivating you on your way to great success and self-improvement.

“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.”

— Ray Bradbury

“It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.”

— Antonio Banderas

“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.”

— Agatha Christie

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”

— Billy Idol

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“I can make more generals, but horses cost money. ”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.”

— Horace

“There are people who have money and people who are rich. ”

— Coco Chanel

“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. ”

— Karl Marx

“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.”

— Karl Marx

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

— Moliere

“The sinews of war are infinite money.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“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.”

— Sophocles

“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.”

— Sophocles

“If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. ”

— Willie Nelson

“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”

— Ovid

“For I can raise no money by vile means.”

— William Shakespeare

“I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.”

— Robert Redford

“Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.”

— Robert Redford

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Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
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— Robert Redford

“Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct. ”

— Robert Rodriguez

“If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.”

— Robert Rodriguez