Quotes about money
A collection of quotes on the topic of business, success, wealth, money.
Best quotes about money

“I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 41

“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“I'm married to my money because it never cheats on me”
Quotes about money

Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

“You know it's funny, when it rains it pours
they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.”
"Keep Ya Head Up"
1990s, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (February 16, 1993)
Variant: They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

“Whatever you do, make sure that you have those things that money can't buy”

As quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); also in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 82

“There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.”
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105454
Second term as Prime Minister
Context: Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
Source: Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.

“I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)

With DANGERDOOM, "Old School", The Mouse and the Mask (2005)
Sourced Lines

Lula da Silva (1975), Cited in: Emir Sader, Ken Silverstein (1991) Without Fear of Being Happy. p. 41
After being advised to stay in the United States when his brother was arrested in Brazil as a communist subversive.

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Variant: I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

“You can't beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUrm-SqLq-X/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

Interview: Bill Skarsgård http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/bill-skarsgard-1#_ (June 5, 2017)

As quoted in "Entrevista com o médico americano P. Adams" in Roda Viva - Entrevista (13 November 2007)

Words spoken by Socrates to Antiphon in Memorabilia, 1.6.11.

Listen, Little Man! (1948)
Context: You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.

“Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.”

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html

“Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.”
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/11/dolly-parton-proust-questionnaire Interview with Vanity Fair magazine (November 2012)

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" in Esquire (May 1961)

According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
Misattributed

The Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/virginia-woolf/ traces the origin of such statements to The Intimate Notebooks of George Jean Nathan (1932), where the diarist states:
We were sitting one morning two Summers ago, Ferenc Molnár, Dr. Rudolf Kommer and I, in the little garden of a coffee-house in the Austrian Tyrol. “Your writing?” we asked him. “How do you regard it?” Languidly he readjusted the inevitable monocle to his eye. “Like a whore,” he blandly ventured. “First, I did it for my own pleasure. Then I did it for the pleasure of my friends. And now — I do it for money.”
Misattributed

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer (1934), Chapter One

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g-U2-cAUMM

On Wii
Source: November 16, 2006 Business Week interview http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2006/tc20061116_750580.htm

“Whenever money is involved, there is elitism.”
6. The inhumanity of a monetary-based system.
The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002)

Answering the question of Jeffrey Goldberg "What sort of corruption do you see in America?" October 4, 1998, The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/magazine/the-crude-face-of-global-capitalism.html?pagewanted=all.

Source: Interview by Charlie Rose of Bloomberg - video https://video-kul1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.3356-2/13862860_1329741163720893_1430621767_n.mp4/video-1469885440.mp4?vabr=114407&oh=bff4e8f9cedc225267e41ec705562dcf&oe=582E0B32&dl=0: 1 minute 53 seconds into the video
1936 speeches to the Great Council of Chiefs

In an interview with the magazine Alt Press http://www.fallinginreverse.com.br/2012/06/entrevista-com-ronnie-radke-na-alt-press.html

Cf. LOOK Magazine 1957: Actor Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses": "Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like." p. 10 books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=-NERAQAAMAAJ&q=slezak.
Misattributed
“Big money for the grill, so I'm never cheap talking.”
Weezy's Ambitionz
Official Mix tapes, Dedication 2 (2006)
An Epic Interview with John Roecker, FilmJerk, www.filmjerk.com, Kristopher, Terrell, August 23, 2003 http://www.filmjerk.com/interviews/article.php?id_int=12,

“It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.”
As quoted in Fortune (9 November 1998); also quoted in "TIME digital 50" in TIME digital archive (1999) http://web.archive.org/web/20000612103032/http://www.time.com/time/digital/digital50/08.html
1990s
Context: Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Source: The Art of War, Chapter XI · The Nine Battlegrounds

Designing the Future (2007)

Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.36 (July 2018)

Source: Discovering Buddhism, 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226w04QMPzQ

" Why WhatsApp Will Never Be Secure https://telegra.ph/Why-WhatsApp-Will-Never-Be-Secure-05-15" 2019-05-15
In reference to his expatriation from Russia after refusing to breach the privacy of VK users for the government

“Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 1
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Context: The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people — people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from normal standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words.

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”
Reported in " Best: Decline of the golden boy http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4090840.stm", BBC News (June 14 2005).

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 4
Source: Down and Out in Paris and London
Context: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

“If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.”
"More About People"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Source: Hard Lines

Book II, 1109a.27.
Variant translation: Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
As quoted in The Child: At Home and School (1944) by Edith M. Leonard, Lillian E. Miles, and Catherine S. Van der Kar, p. 203
Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 1
Source: Why I Write
Context: Money, once again; all is money. All human relationships must be purchased with money. If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. And how right they are, after all! For, moneyless, you are unlovable. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels. But then, if I haven't money, I DON'T speak with the tongues of men and of angels.

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102777
The last sentence is widely paraphrased as "The trouble/problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
Leader of the Opposition
Variant: They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.
Context: And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain – and Britain and Socialism are not the same thing... It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people's money.

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Source: A Room of One's Own (1929), Ch. 1, p. 4
“She's strong! And scary… I bet she's single… I'd put money on it..”
Source: Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice

Source: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

On Functional Finance: (1943, pg.354) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=174849

"The Great Disruption", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 17 Jun 1999, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00545kh

"Hold Ya Head" https://play.google.com/music/preview/Te5ppuyfquh4t6lnlla3zs6w33e?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics
1990s, The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996)
“Fresh out the bank, it's the Birdman Junior, money too long. Teachers, put away your rulers.”
Fireman, written with Bigram Zayas and Matthew DelGiorno.
1990s, Tha Carter II (2018)

“When I had money I was an animal. I was so belligerent. I lost all across the board.”
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-11621981-details/I'm+a+street+bum,+says+broke+Tyson/article.do;jsessionid=dZGvFJZGkLvsnbWWXZrVhsZ2kJlny8kkygtqYThr5ZL2nyWzmSjJ!-686754952
On himself

1970s
Source: Malcolm Muggeridge, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, A Gift For God: Prayers and Meditations, New York: Harper & Row, 1975. p. 61; Cited in: M. Dhavamony. "Mother Teresa's mission of love for the poor" in: Studia missionalia, Vol 39. (1990), p. 137

Interview during the driver's strike at the 1982 South African Grand Prix, Donaldson, pg. 297

J. Paul Getty cited in: Alison Branagan (2009) Making Sense of Business: A No-Nonsense Guide to Business Skills. p. 136

http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm

November 2005 reported by report by NY Post https://nypost.com/2005/11/23/jerko-jackos-ugly-jabs-at-jews-calls-them-leeches-on-tape/