This page contains a collection of money quotes and how money is spent. Some of the quotes are humorous, while others are more serious. The quotes are organized into categories such as “Money Spent Quotes,” “Money Well Spent Quotes,” and “Money Wasted Quotes.”
“Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went.
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent”
— Robert Frost
“Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year” — P.J. O’Rourke
“Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women … and the other ten percent I wasted” — Tug McGraw
“Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels” — Roswell D. Hitchcock
“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you” — Carl Sandburg
“Money lying around tends to get spent. It is a very hard mental exercise to sock away a bunch of money and forget about it” — Fred Wilson
“Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted” — Richard Wagner
“32 people spent slightly more on the 2012 elections than the 3.7 million typical Americans who sent in modest dollar donations to their preferred Presidential candidate. When 32 people can outspend 3.7 million citizens, our democracy is in real danger” — Elizabeth Warren
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others… Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe” — Ban Ki-Moon
“There will not be a bill until all the lobbying money is spent” — Rod Wright
“During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year” — H.L. Mencken
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“[We] spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength, and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon” — Donald Trump
“I have not heard any of the pundits or commentators discussing the fact that I spent FAR LESS MONEY on the win than Hillary on the loss!” — Donald Trump
“To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn’t have spent a trillion” — Mitch McConnell
“I use to love you honey, ’til you spent all my money” — Fats Domino
“Promises are the only currency left. They must be spent wisely” — Rick Yancey
“Money belongs to life, and it wants to be spent and passed on in the service of life. Money is happy to be spent. All the richer will it return to us” — Bert Hellinger
“It has been ascertained by statistical observation that in engineering enterprises one man is killed for every million francs that is spent on the works… In building the Eiffel Tower, which was a construction costing six million and a half, we only lost four men, thus remaining below the average” — Gustave Eiffel
“If we have to obey the law, then we ask for a voice in the making of that law. If we pay taxes … we want to have a voice in saying how that money is spent” — Kate Sheppard
“If we have to obey the law, then we ask for a voice in the making of that law. If we pay taxes … we want to have a voice in saying how that money is spent” — Kate Sheppard
“[Hospital records] would show subscribers how their money was being spent, what amount of good was really being done with it, or whether the money was not doing mischief rather than good; they would tell us the exact sanitary state of every hospital and of every ward in it” — Florence Nightingale
“I like to spend money, on houses – on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It’s just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I’m not stingy” — Gloria Vanderbilt
“They’re bored. The Money is bored, money wants to burn. Money wants to be spent. Money does not want to sit in a safe. Money is intended to be gambled. Put it on black, spin the wheel. Let’s see what happens” — Jason Calacanis
“One clashes with stupidity of all kinds. And then how much money must be spent in advance! The way in which artists are treated is really scandalous. I am compelled to give a third of my receipts to the manager of the theatre and a fifth to the hospitals. Devil take them! As long as these abuses exist, I shall always ask whether music is or is not an art that may be freely exercised. Believe me, there is nothing to be done for artists in times like these” — Ludwig van Beethoven
“Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance” — Richard Branson
“In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend” — Pauline Hanson
“Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation” — Zig Ziglar
“I’ve had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money” — Joseph P. Kennedy
“It begins and ends with money. It’s absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It’s obscene” — Kathleen Turner
“It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them” — Bill Vaughan
“And there you have your Founders and Framers in all their elite glory—the 1 percent of their time. Many spent more than they made. Struggled their entire lives with debt. And, when they could, always married into money. Roughly speaking: more than forty held government bonds. More than twenty were moneylenders. Over fifteen were slave owners. The rest an assortment of land and debt speculators. And most dabbled in more than one category. George Washington, for example, was a slave owner, a moneylender, a land speculator, and the largest holder of government IOUs in the country” — Ed Asner
“A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don’t necessarily want to be alive” — Bob Newhart
“There is no correlation between how much money was spent on the wedding and how long the marriage is going to last” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent” — Marco Rubio
“All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love” — Steve Harvey
“I could have made a small film and kept all the money from ‘Life is Beautiful’. Instead, I spent more money than I had on ‘Pinocchio’, a very risky film” — Roberto Benigni
“Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved” — Bill Gates
“Not having money to spend doesn’t mean we can’t have well-spent moments every day” — Sarah Breathnach