“Today we live in a financial age: The right is obsessed with tax cuts, and the left is obsessed with funding increases. Republicans joke about the incompetence of government to please wealthy donors who don’t want to pay for it; Democrats enable incompetence because they are beholden to public-secto…”— Peter Thiel, washingtonpost.com
“I always keep a giant-brimmed ladies’ hat ready, in case I ever need to sit in back of an auction house and mysteriously place a winning bid.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.”— Max Barry, amazon.com
“You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Most research subjects strongly believe that another $30,000 a year in income would make them much happier. And they feel equally strongly that adding a 30-minute walk to their daily routine would be of trivial import. And yet Dr. Gilbert’s research suggests that the added income is far less likely…”— Kerry Patterson, amazon.com
“Top fifteen things money can’t buy: Time. Happiness. Inner peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com
“You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.”— Maureen Johnson, amazon.com
“At 23, JK Rowling was broke. Tina Fey was working at the Y.M.C.A. Oprah had just gotten fired from her first job as a TV reporter and Walt Disney had declared bankruptcy.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank lived in a car with her mother while they saved up for an apartment in Los Angeles.”— Vivian Giang, businessinsider.com
“Daniel Craig, or James Bond, once had to sleep on park benches in London. Craig now has several critically acclaimed movies on his resume.”— Vivian Giang, businessinsider.com
“Jim Carrey once lived out of a VW camper van and in a tent on his sister's front lawn.”— Vivian Giang, businessinsider.com
“When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest.”— Jean Vanier, amazon.com
“We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.”— Michael LeBoeuf, books.google.com
“You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are.”— Taylor Caldwell, amazon.com
“Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.”— Candace Bushnell, amazon.com
“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”— Thornton Wilder, amazon.com
“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want…”— Margaret Young, books.google.com
“Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day.”— Sarah Ban Breathnach, amazon.com