Quotes About Finance and Money

Quotations are very popular as there is often something memorable about the way they were said. It is frequently the case because it is said in an easy to remember way such as a humoristic style or because the quote speaks to the real character of the problem without offending anyone. Sometimes quotes will rhyme or sum up a complex concept so efficiently that it will be very difficult to summarize it in a better way.

The following is an assembly of quotes about finance & money that represents these different styles.

Quotes:

"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears." Robert W. Sarnoff

"Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own." Dick Gregory (1932 - )

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." Woody Allen (1935 - )

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)

"Lack of money is the root of all evil. George Bernard Shaw." (1856 - 1950)

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle." Ken Hakuta

"The chief value of money lays in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

"The only thing I like about rich people is their money." Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

"He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money." Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." Donald Trump (1946 - )

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income." Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)

"When you've got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow." Fern Naito

"It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money." WC Fields

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves." Herbert Hoover

"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears." Robert W. Sarnoff

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." Anonymous

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." Spike Milligan

"Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered." Anonymous

"I have never been in a situation where having money made it worse." Clinton Jones

"Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy." Spike Milligan

"Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye." Anonymous