If you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
—J. P. Donleavy
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
—Noel Coward
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
—Upton Sinclair
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
—Christopher Marlowe
What you get free costs too much.
—Jean Anouilh
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
—Errol Flynn
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
—Andy Rooney
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
—Douglas Adams
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
—Yogi Berra
The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.
—Helen Rowland
Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
—Dorothy L. Sayers
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
—Lewis H. Lapham
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
—Oscar Wilde