Money Quotes

“Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”

“The success of the Watergate investigation was based on a very simple premise: follow the money.”

“If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; but if you've got seventeen dollars and you spend 29 cents... the richer you are, the richer you get.”

“I'm from a working-class background, and I've been able to make a good living, but I'm not a millionaire.”

“What is the point of earning money if you are not going to enjoy it?”

“Dentist: A prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.”

“The number one rule of the rich is to stay rich.”

“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”

“Sound money and free banking are not impossible; they are merely illegal.”

“I made my first million dollars when I was 17. I blew it all by the time I was 20.”

“Every appropriation, every authorization, every tax break, every earmark, has a lobbyist behind it. It's a virtual tollbooth.”

“A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich.”

“He also coined the phrase 'pursuit of the almighty dollar'.”

“I find all this money a considerable burden.”

“There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.”

“Money is not wealth. It is a claim on wealth. Wealth is the real stuff—the food, the shelter, the education, the health care, the things that make our lives better.”

“Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.”

“At 15, I was making a lot of money, and I was on a TV show.”

“There is a level of access and influence that money buys that's just disproportionate to what it should be.”

“I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.”