Quotes about Money
Mrs. Hackit declines cream; she has so long abstained from it with an eye to the weekly butter-money, that abstinence, wedded to habit, has begotten aversion.
— George Eliot
When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.
— George Eliot
My business is to take care of life, and to do the best I can think of for it. Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects
— George Eliot
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to afford this and that. Acting seemed to be a shortcut out of the mess.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.
— Robert Kiyosaki
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
— Sam Walton
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
— Samuel Johnson
Investigate carefully before you invest. Spend as much time researching the investment as you spend earning the money.
— Brian Tracy
We have to learn to do more ministry with less money.
— Mark Driscoll
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
— Aristotle
I enjoy living in a nice house and having a nice life. So I do two or three commercials overseas a year to sort of fill in, because they pay pretty well.
— George Clooney
all the evils in the world come not because our desires for happiness are too strong, but because they are so weak that we settle for fleeting pleasures that do not satisfy our deepest souls, but in the end destroy them. The root of all evil is that we are the kind of people who settle for the love of money instead of the love of God (1 Timothy 6:10).
— John Piper