“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
Money does not buy happiness, but the lack of it can buy a lot of misery. These quotes explore wealth, poverty, generosity, greed, financial wisdom, and the uncomfortable truth that how you spend your money reveals what you actually value.
“But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.”
“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
“I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.”
“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.”
“Brigands demand your money or your life women require both.”
“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”
“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.”
“I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.”
“I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.”
“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.”
“I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.”
“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”
“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
“When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.”