Welcome to our curated collection of insightful quotes on the subject of money. From renowned thinkers to influential business leaders, these quotes offer diverse perspectives on the role of money in our lives, its power, and its implications.
Money, as a concept, holds a unique place in society it is both a means of exchange and a symbol of power and status. Throughout history, individuals from various walks of life have shared their thoughts and experiences regarding money, shedding light on its complexities and its impact on human behavior and society at large.
Whether you seek inspiration, wisdom, or simply a fresh perspective, delve into the following collection of quotes on money. These words have the power to provoke thought, challenge assumptions, and perhaps even spark personal reflection on the role of money in your own life and aspirations. Without further ado, explore the quotes below and discover the diverse insights they offer on the intriguing topic of money.
The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink. Henry Rollins
While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn’t really need to go to school anymore. Russell Crowe
Once I’m satisfied and I’ve made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it’s very expensive, I will definitely be back there. Brody Jenner
In 1988, as an unknown candidate, totally unknown, I won Iowa, came in second in New Hampshire, won South Dakota. I was ahead in every Super Tuesday state the day after South Dakota. The only problem was I didn’t have enough money. I had a million dollars left, and Al Gore had three and Michael Dukakis had three and it was lights out. Dick Gephardt
I’m just fascinated by houses. In another life, I’d have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I’d collect them like other people collect teapots. I don’t know why I love them so much. I’m just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives. Frances Mayes
I didn’t make enough money in my sport to retire. Roger Staubach
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Jackie Robinson
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn’t making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I’d better do some writing. Val Guest
I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible. Michael Sandel
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. Dan Quayle
I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don’t make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves – people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing. Chad Harbach
You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused. Winona Ryder
As long as I have enough money for makeup artists, everything is okay. I feel young and very free. But one day, my face will be too old for the camera. Sandra Bullock
When I was studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse, I would overdraft my bank account and not have enough money to buy groceries. But I also discovered how to cook with very limited resources. Antoni Porowski
You know, I didn’t have enough money to quit my day job… the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way. Mary Chapin Carpenter
My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn’t make a living, he couldn’t support himself. He worked all the time and he didn’t make enough money to have a house, have an apartment. Jeffrey Jones
I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn’t do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New Mexico, and I would go out on the weekends and make just enough money to pay my insurance and pay for a couple beers, and that would be it. Freddie Prinze, Jr.
When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids. Scott Adams
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It’s another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It’s a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life. Robert Fulghum
I never challenged control of the band. Basically, all I did was start asking questions. There’s an old adage in Hollywood amongst managers: ‘Pay your acts enough money that they don’t ask questions.’ And I started asking questions. Don Felder
I have enough money for the rest of my life and enough to leave a good inheritance for our kids. David A. Siegel
I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I want to share it with others. Sudha Murty
You couldn’t pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It’s much better being older. Robin Wright
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven’t got enough money and enough time, so that’s always going to be an element in filmmaking. Ryan Kwanten
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn’t enough money to take care of the most basic of needs. Wayne Dyer
My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college – and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so. Nigel Hamilton
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. A. J. Liebling
What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that’s going to bring you happiness. That’s what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That’s a fallacy. Adam Yauch
Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate. Dolly Parton
With a wife and two children to support, I didn’t have enough money for me to do nothing. So I started my business. Eddy Merckx
Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we’ve never got enough money to make them. James McAvoy
Whether you’re making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there’s never enough time. Vera Farmiga
You don’t mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed. Jeff Ross
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. George Carlin
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills. Robert Hass
There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year. Norman Granz
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work. Ogden Nash
I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I’ve made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able. Wilbur Smith
I’ve got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don’t have to do nothing I don’t want to. John Lee Hooker
If there’s not enough money in the bank account, you don’t spend it. Charles Schwab
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn’t spend the money I’ve accrued now. Shia LaBeouf
The root of all evil isn’t money; rather, it’s not having enough money. Gene Simmons
It’s important not to limit the amount of their own money that candidates can spend, but to give other people access to enough money to run competitive races. Christie Hefner
I didn’t think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. Gregg Allman
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn’t have enough money to support their children, they’d put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children. Robert Stack
I don’t buy things now, I buy plane tickets. The only thing I want is to make enough money to be able to travel with my children. Oona Chaplin
If I have enough money to eat I’m good. Shia LaBeouf
I’ve always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera. Johan Renck
Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery. Beverly Johnson
I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles. Akshay Kumar
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
We have to make it easier to afford to go into education in the first place, so you don’t leave with crippling debt that you never have a chance to pay back because you’re not making enough money. Gretchen Whitmer
There’s nothing, nobody can pay me enough money and nobody can do enough for me to wear something I don’t want. P. J. Tucker
I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called ‘Chocolate,’ and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show. Pat Paulsen
I just felt like I couldn’t deal with the everyday responsibilities of life, paying bills and all of that. I’m terrible at all of that. So I knew I had to make enough money to pay someone else to deal with all of that. Lily Allen
Well, the fact that the news industry doesn’t have enough money to only send salaried staff to war zones means there is an enormous, wide-open opportunity for young people who want to be on staff and don’t know how to get there. Sebastian Junger
It’s easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you’re loved enough, when you have enough money, and you’re appreciated. Debbie Ford
There were times when we couldn’t even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn’t enough money. Emma Chamberlain
Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition. Alexandra Kosteniuk
I made enough money to buy a house. That’s crazy, but fame proved ephemeral. Moon Unit Zappa
If it’s enough money, I’ll play the North Pole. Teddy Wilson
There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion’s share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care. Joel Fuhrman
I didn’t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting. David McCallum
There’s enough money for everybody. See, I can’t do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can’t do what I do. Lil Uzi Vert
Rock stardom will die because nobody will make enough money any more to be rock stars. Noel Gallagher
There’s not enough money in the world to get me singing ‘Because We Want To’ again. I wouldn’t do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down. Billie Piper
I like the writing life, but it’s not something that always makes enough money. Tom Drury
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. Mother Teresa
To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with ‘Dawn of the Dead’ was that they didn’t have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack. Zack Snyder
After ‘Sports’ came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album’s singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted. Huey Lewis
I’m probably going to be ashamed to say this… It was a Sir Mix-a-Lot album. I think I was 12, 13. I had just enough money for the ‘My Posse’s on Broadway’ single, so I bought that single. That was the first thing I bought with my own money. Rick Famuyiwa
I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money. David Lee Roth
Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we’ve set aside enough money for our kid’s therapy. Michelle Pfeiffer
Decisions I make, the money, my contract, all of that will handle itself. I don’t ever worry about my money. I already have enough money for the rest of my life. It’s all about winning. Jimmy Butler
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn’t give me enough money. Jason Patric
I didn’t get paid enough money really to live properly, sleeping on people’s sofas and stuff, but that was the moment when I thought, ‘I just wanna play football professionally; whether I get paid 10 euros or 10,000 euros, I just wanna play.’ Lucy Bronze
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn’t got enough money to do so. Eduard Shevardnadze
The government gave me enough money to go to acting school. Tony Curtis
I’ve lived in small rooms, flats, growing plants in pots on window sills. I’d have liked to have had a full-fledged garden with all kinds of flowers and plants. I’ve never had enough money to buy a big enough garden space. Ruskin Bond
And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don’t really care if it’s a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it’s got a story that’s compelling and there’s enough money to make the picture. Griffin Dunne
I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat. Saffron Burrows
I’d made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again. Macaulay Culkin
I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own. Kane Brown
You hope any film finds its audience and makes enough money that you get to make another one. Brad Bird
I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college. Joel Osteen
Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control. Garry Kasparov
When I was running ’round in America, about 30 years old, I didn’t want no woman. I knowed I could make enough money to take care of myself, but I didn’t want nobody to take care of. David Edwards
Fortunately, now I’ve got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest. Ryan Kwanten
I’m not Russell Brand or Ricky Gervais, but I have enough money that I don’t have to work. Most people who’ve done what I do don’t have that. Frankie Boyle
There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn’t enough money in the world. John Frankenheimer
Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him. Todd Howard
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream. Gail Sheehy
When I started acting, I didn’t think of it as a career. I always thought Hollywood was this magical world where a fairy came down and said, ‘Come live with the Munchkins; you are now one of us.’ I didn’t understand the concept of it as a career. I thought I would save up enough money to go to college. Leonardo DiCaprio
I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. Barack Obama
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money. Andrew Motion
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense? Phylicia Rashad
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something. Jackie Mason
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don’t have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type. Gary Cole
We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it’s expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things. Graham Nash
