Prose Money Quotes

Calico Kitty

My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... ~ Muse

When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post. ~ Florencio Campomanes

Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers? ~ Drake

Let's dispel a little myth. Working hard is NOT the key to success. It may be an ingredient, but it isn't the main one. ~ Tim Fargo

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd. ~ Adrian Tomine

I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money to: a man that smells 4like liquiid garbage, or ocean breeze? ~ Daniel Tosh

I think for some people real success would mean having all the money in the world and having everyone love you every minute of the day. I don't know if that's really my aspiration. I just want to keep doing this. I just want to keep finding new ways and new paths and new territory. Every time I get to do it, it feels like freedom. ~ Stacey D'Erasmo

Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's important to me. ~ Rowan Atkinson

I'm still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy or is a thriller or is seriously dramatic. And I would love the opportunity to do those things. ~ Nicole Holofcener

It is not saying too much; I know what I feel, and how averse are my inclinations to the bare thought of marriage. No one would take me for love; and I will not be regarded in the light of a mere money-speculation. And I do not want a stranger
unsympathizing, alien, different from me. I want my kindred
those with whom I have full fellow-feeling. ~ Charlotte Bronte

he invited Sylvia to dine with him somewhere where they were going to have something fabulous and very nasty at about two guineas the ounce on the menu. Something like that! And during dinner Sir John had entertained her by singing the praises of her husband. He said that Tietjens was much too great a gentleman to be wasted on the old-furniture trade: that was why he hadn't persisted. But he sent by Sylvia a message to the effect that if ever Tietjens did come to be in want of money . . . Occasionally Sylvia was worried ~ Ford Madox Ford

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. ~ Nicolas Chamfort

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good. ~ Paul Mellon

Poland not only has a capable military but also is strong economically and does not need money being raised for it. ~ Gordon Gee

I don't even like money. It just quiets my nerves. ~ Joe Louis

Money doesn't talk, it swears. ~ Bob Dylan

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation. ~ Leinad Eibam, Published Poet

To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth. ~ Kenneth Eade

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge. ~ Bell Hooks

Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?] ~ Horace

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever noticed that humans have made it so difficult and complicated to "survive" in this world? It's a vicious cycle. You go to school, and try really hard, so that you can get into a good college, and then you try really hard at college to get a good job, and then you try really hard at your job, so you can make money. And then your kids do the same thing. And everyone just keeps on doing this and no one even stops to think WHY they're doing it any more. Everyone just does it because it's what you're supposed to do. And like, before, when the human race had just started, the goal was to just SURVIVE. People just lived. I mean, that's what really matters, right? Survival. Because after you die, it doesn't matter what college you went to. ~ Eliza Engellenner

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money. ~ Edward James Olmos

You can make money two ways - make more, or spend less. ~ John Hope Bryant

Textbooks in economics, which explain the economic purpose of money (a unit of account, a store of value, and a means of exchange), usually neglect to mention the chief role of money in America: a source of entertainment. ~ Michael Lewis

Gnome money is better than no money, but just by a few feet. ~ Jarod Kintz

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them ~ Sunday Adelaja

When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

The stock market is a financial redistribution system. It takes money away from those who have no patience and gives it to those who have." - Warren Buffet ~ John F. Demartini

Ambition, while there was nothing wrong with it, was still a far cry from power. Ambition got you out of bed to make money. Power meant you could make money without ever leaving bed. ~ AlTonya Washington

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. ~ Noam Chomsky

There's so much to be found in literature, especially if you don't have the money to travel or the means to get out of your neighborhood or get off work. ~ Saul Williams

The point about bad money is not that it converges with the worth of the paper it is printed on. It is worse than that. Falsifying the information basis of all prices, it stultifies entrepreneurs, deceives savers, and fosters tyranny. Interest ~ George Gilder

Ultimately, if you're not doing what you love, you're not going to be fulfilled. Sure, to make money, you have to be tough, you have to have some smarts and a little luck would help, but the bottom line is: You have to love what you do. ~ Donald Trump

Those who earn money know best how to spend it. ~ Anthea Turner