Barack Obama :
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
Everett Dirksen :
A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.
Frank Adams :
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Franklin D. Roosevelt :
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Gloria Steinem :
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Izaak Walton :
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.
James Russell Lowell :
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
Jane Austen :
Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jean Anouilh :
God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Katherine Whitehorn :
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Marian Wright Edelman :
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
Mark Twain :
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mohandas K. Gandhi :
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson :
Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson :
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
Thomas Wolfe :
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Thornton Wilder :
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
from "The Matchmaker"
Voltaire :
When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Woody Allen :
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
