Quotes about Money

The money which is essential for the conduct of business is as worthless as a sand dune, until it has been mixed with efficient "brains.

Before us lie two paths—honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.

If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money. If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted poverty, believed it was a virtue and a sure sign of honesty. Too much money had a whiff of evil and somebody else's blood.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

If the risk-reward ratio is right, you can make big money buying trouble.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

She shakes him; that is what she presumable does to other readers too. That is, presumably why, in the larger picture, she exists. What a strange reward for a lifetime of shaking people: to be conveyed to this town in Pennsylvania and given money!

They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.