Dollars Quotes
- The page contains a collection of money quotes on money and dollars
- There are over 60 quotes from various famous figures like authors, artists, politicians, and business leaders
- Many of the quotes discuss society’s obsession with money and the dollar
- Some explore the meaning and value of money and what a dollar represents
- Others comment on economic issues like inflation, wealth inequality, and the relationship between dollars and commodities like oil
- Users can share or view images of each quote on the page
“Dollars do better if they are accompanied by sense” — Earl Riney
“Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress” — Mac Miller
“The eye has never seen, nor the hand touched a dollar. All that we can touch or see is a promise to pay or satisfy a debt due for an amount called a dollar” — A. Mitchell Innes
For want of a dollar the bus ride was lost. For want of a bus ride the job was lost.
For want of a job the paycheck was lost. For want of a paycheck the housing was lost. And all for want of goddamn dollar
— Scott Santens
“Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills” — Clifford Odets
“The value of a dollar is, to buy just things: a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius, and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university, is worth more than a dollar in a jail” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s all an act of faith, nobody knows what a dollar is, what the word means, what holds the thing up, what it stands in for” — J.S.G. Boggs
and he continues “And that’s what my work is about” as an artist who explores the meaning of money in his work. Boggs died in 2016 with far less recognition than he deserved. Visit the related quotes from Boggs shown below for more on a great artist.
“Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved” — Bill Gates
“When you stop treating people like a waste of time or a dollar sign, then you can begin to add real value to your life” — Kora-Lea Vidal
“More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went” — Roger Babson
“All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations, seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures gauged by their dollars; life was auctioneered, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars” — Charles Dickens
“The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle — a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion” — Edgar Allan Poe
“The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land” — Washington Irving
“When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends” — Floyd Patterson
“If I had been on ‘Bowling for Dollars,’ I’d wind up owing them money” — Ricki Lake
“The net worth of Jeff Bezos is about $200-billion. A stack of that many dollar bills would reach twice as high as his Blue Origins Rocket launch” — Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won’t spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it” — Orrin Woodward
“I came to Hollywood wanting a career that had longevity, and I wasn’t afraid to take risks because I had a dollar in the bank. I wasn’t driven by money as much as I was driven by making a successful transition” — Dwayne Johnson
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed” — Henry Ford
“Money’s the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters – a dollar was always worth a hundred cents” — Scott Westerfeld
“It’s changed our country from what used to be a democracy, when it used to be one person, one vote to now, what is it, a plutocracy? It’s one dollar, one vote” — Ben Cohen
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves” — Albert Einstein
“Over time, there’s a very close correlation between what happens to the dollar and what happens to the price of oil. When the dollar gets weak, the price of oil, which, as you know, and other commodities are denominated in dollars, they go up” — Steve Forbes
“It’s not impossible that there might be traces of virus on dollar bill, but if you wash your hands it should provide adequate protections — you shouldn’t need anything else” — Julie Fischer
“I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend” — Joan Crawford
“I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars” — Lorde
“The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else” — Jimi Hendrix
“You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well” — Jorge Luis Borges
“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public” — P.T. Barnum
“Sometimes a person looks at me and sees dollars. They see numbers and they see a product. I look at me and see art” — Rihanna
Joplin said:
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a color TV Dialing For Dollars is trying to find me” — Janis Joplin
“I am a sort of middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed businessman who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others” — Thomas Edison
“Every dollar we spend or invest has impacts, whether they are positive or negative” — Matt Patsky
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“[Hannity] makes dollars so they don’t mind if he doesn’t make sense”
— Tiffany Cross
I’m going to start off by putting this price tag right here just to remind you guys just how much Marco Rubio took for every student’s life in Florida: one dollar and five cents
— David Hogg
“You don’t know how long you’re going to play, you’ve got to save every dollar even though you are making a good salary” — Kirk Cousins
“Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar” — Bruce Springsteen
“The biggest threats to American sovereignty are invisible digital dollars wired into U.S. election campaigns from abroad” — Robert Reich
“Both parties have told newly elected members of the Congress that they should spend 30 hours a week in the Republican and Democratic call centers across the street from the Congress, dialing for dollars” — Rick Nolan
“Sometimes I stop thinking of it as a dollar bill, I just think about it as materials. I have to remind myself sometimes that it’s worth money” — Mark Wagner
“The dollar bill is ostensibly the most successful publication ever printed” — Mark Wagner
“The taboo around destroying a dollar bill makes people pay more attention to what … I’m doing than if I was using any other piece of paper” — Mark Wagner
“Gentlemen, we stand only to place humanity above the dollar” — Burton K Wheeler
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