“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
“Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.”
“A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.”
“I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.”
“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.”
“Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.”
“Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”
“When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.”
“But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.”
“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
“If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.”
“Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.”
“Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.”
“The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.”
“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
“Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.”
“There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.”
“I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.”
“It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.”
“Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”
“Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
“Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.”
“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.”
“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”
“A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.”
“All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.”