71 Amazingly Funny, Witty, and Inspiring Celebrity Money Quotes

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We live today in a society that exalts celebrities.  I thought it would be fun to collect some of the best celebrity soundbites from athletes to movie stars to Presidents and everyone in between.  Share in the comments which one was your favorite celebrity money quote!!

1. Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.

   -Will Rogers, actor

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2. A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

   -Jonathan Swift, essayist

    

3. People have got to learn: if they don’t have cookies in the cookie jar, they can’t eat cookies.

   -Suze Orman, financial advisor

    

4. I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

   -Steve Martin, actor

    

5. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

   -Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of US

    

6. I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy.

   -Warren Buffett, American investor

    

7. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

   -Charles Dickens, writer

    

8. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.

   -Warren Buffett, American investor

    

9. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

   -Yogi Berra, baseball catcher/manager

    

10. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

    -Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of US

     

11. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

    -Ayn Rand, novelist

     

12. Financial peace isn’t the acquisition of stuff. It’s learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can’t win until you do this.

    -Dave Ramsey, financial author

     

13. Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.

    -J. Paul Getty, American Industrialist

     

14. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

    -Henry Ford, American Industrialist

     

15. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

    -Robert G. Allen, investor

     

16. Try to save something while your salary is small; it’s impossible to save after you begin to earn more.

    -Jack Benny, comedian

     

17. The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.

    -Ben Graham, investor

     

18. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

    -Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President

     

19. You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.

    -Dave Ramsey, financial author

     

20. Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

    -Zig Ziglar, author

     

21. Never spend your money before you have it.

    -Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President

     

22. Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

    -Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of US

     

23. It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

    -Robert Kiyosaki, American businessman and author

     

24. Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.”

    -Joe Biden, former Vice President of US

     

25. If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks.

    -John Bogle, investor

     

26. I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

    -Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter

     

27. “Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”

    –Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter

     

28. “Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

    –John Waters, film director

     

29. “I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.”  

    –Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor

     

30. “What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?”

    –Agatha Christie, novelist

     

31. “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.”

    -Jim Rohn, American entrepreneur

     

32. “Money is like muck—not good unless it be spread.”

    -Francis Bacon, former Lord Chancellor

     

33. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.”

    -Ronald Reagan, 40th US President

     

34. “Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.”

    -Henry Fielding, novelist

     

35. “If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.”

    -Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father of US

     

36. “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”

    -Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Governor of California/actor

     

37. “If you stop at general math, you’re only going to make general math money.”

    -Former calculus student, Snoop Dogg, rapper

     

38. “Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.”  

    -Robert De Niro, actor

     

39. “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”

    -Woody Allen, filmmaker

     

40. “Cocaine is God’s way of saying you’re making too much money.”

    -Robin Williams, comedian/actor

     

41. “Money doesn’t talk; it swears.”

    -Bob Dylan, Jamaican singer/songwriter

     

42. “Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.”

    -David Geffen, American business magnate

     

43. “I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.”

    -Kendrick Lamar, rapper

     

44. “Success is having to worry about every … thing in the world, except money.”

    -Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter

     

45. “People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”

    -Joan Rivers, comedian

     

46. “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

    -Bob Hope, comedian

     

47. “A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.”

    -Doyle Brunson, poker player

     

48. “Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naïveté, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.”

    -Simon Cowell, television producer

     

49. “I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn’t notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I’m letting him keep it. I’m saving money!”

    -Rita Rudner, comedian

     

50. “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

    -Satchel Paige, baseball player

     

51. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”

    -Will Smith, actor

     

52. “I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.”

    -Eminem, rapper

     

53. “I’ve seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can’t make any money. I tell you something… no one’s going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.”

    -Jimmy Dean, singer

     

54. “God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.”

    -Ben Affleck, actor

     

55. “Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that’s a bonus, and if you don’t, you still won’t hate going to work.”

    -Jeff Foxworthy, comedian

     

56. “When I decided to be a musician, I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.”

    -Tom Petty, musician

     

57. “If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!”

    -William Shatner, Canadian actor

     

58. “The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles’ heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.”

    -Dana Carvey, actor

     

59. “Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”

    -Will Rogers, actor

     

60. “I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.”

    -Kevin Bacon, actor

     

61. “The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.'”

    -Dinah Shore, singer

     

62. “My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, ‘Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don’t put everything in one basket,’ but she let me explore and be creative.”

    -Queen Latifah, rapper/actress

     

63. “I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.”

    -Sammy Davis Jr., singer

     

64. “The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax.”

    -Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

     

65. “I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.”

    -Judy Garland, singer/actress

     

66. “I’m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn’t understand, she had to explain: ‘That’s like three Mercedes.’ Then I understood.”

    -Brooke Shields, actress

     

67. Money doesn’t make you happy. It just makes you feel better.

    –P. Diddy (Sean Combs), rapper

     

68. Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’

    -Paul McCartney, singer-songwriter

     

69. Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.

    -George Carlin, comedian

     

70. “Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.”

    -Groucho Marx, comedian/writer

     

71. “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”

    -Earl Wilson, baseball player