Curious about what the rich and famous have said about money? Missed one of the previous Money Quote e-mails? Here are some of our favorite Money Quotes.

"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

— Steven Wright

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."

— Richard Bach

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

— Woody Allen

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

— Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them."

— Napolean Bonaparte

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale."

— Zig Ziglar

"We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules."

— Buzzie Bavasi

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."

— David Lee Roth

"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."

— Margaret Thatcher

"We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."

— Ronald Reagan

"If the income tax is the price we have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers."

— Groucho Marx

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."

— Bo Derek

"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."

— Abraham Lincoln

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

— John Maynard Keynes

"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."

— Oscar Wilde

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

— William A. Ward

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience."

— Harvey MacKay

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, 'Press on,' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

— Calvin Coolidge

"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."

— Douglas Adams

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."

— Kin Hubbard

"Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind."

— Kay Ingram

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

— George Bernard Shaw

"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life...it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."

— Walt Disney

"If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it."

— Author Unknown

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

— George Bernard Shaw

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

— EE Cummings

"The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them."

— Peter Lynch

"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."

— Ray Kroc — Founder McDonalds Corp.

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."

— Oprah Winfrey

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

— Bette Davis

"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

"Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It is to see my dividends coming in."

— John D. Rockefeller

"Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers."

— Michael Dell

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

— Coco Chanel

"A gold miner is a liar standing beside a hole in the ground."

— Mark Twain

"The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

— Mark Twain

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

— Groucho Marx

"Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money."

— Satchel Paige

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax."

— Albert Einstein

"People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage."

— Doug Larson

"Adults are just children who earn money."

— Kenneth Branaugh (actor)

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong me believe in cause and effect."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well."

— Margaret Thatcher

"My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil."

— John Paul Getty

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."

— Mark Twain

"It's a recession when your neighnor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

— Harry S. Truman

"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have."

— Ernest Haskins

"Change is good, but dollars are better."

— Anonymous

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."

— Sam Ewing

"Don't lend people money it gives them amnesia."

— Anonymous

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

— Pablo Picasso

"What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money."

— Henry Youngman

"Some people will do anything for money - even work."

— P.K. Shaw

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughlessly by the Americans themselves."

— Albert Einstein

"Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver"

—Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe."

— Cullen Hightower

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."

— Donald Trump

"Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone."

— Mae West

"The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments."

— Mad Magazine

"A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big cunk of that money and give it to others."

— Larry Ellison

"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."

— Anonymous

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

— Yogi Berra

"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."

— Jane Austen

"The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them."

— Anonymous

"I hope that I will be able to begin my sentence in the near future because I would like to be back in early March to plant the spring garden."

— Martha Stewart

"All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy."

— Anonymous

"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."

— Earl Wilson

"It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages."

— Henry Ford

"True, you can't take it with you, but then, that's not where it comes in handy."

—Brendan Francis

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

— Oscar Wilde

"Money is to my social existence what health is to my body."

— Mason Cooley

"What was a small personal matter became over the last two years an almost fatal circus event of unprecedented proportions."

— Martha Stewart

"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

— Anthony Burgess

"It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges."

— John Maynard Keynes

"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money."

— Mark Twain

"The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money."

— IRS auditor

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Always borrow money form a pessimist, he doesn't expect to be paid back."

— Author Unknown

"The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. "

— Frank Hubbard

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

— John Paul Getty

"The two most beautiful words in the English language are: "Check enclosed."

—Dorothy Parker

"Money is power, & you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."

— Russell H. Conwell, Temple Univ, 1877

"Money often cost too much."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity, but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money."

— David Crockett, Member of Congress, 1827-31, 1832-1835

"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

— JP Getty

"The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money--then make money with money--then make lots of money with lots of money."

— Paul Erdman

"It is better to have a permanent income then to be fascinating."

— Oscar Wilde

"You try to be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy."

— Warren Buffett

"When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old--I know it is."

— Oscar Wilde

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."

— Steve Martin

"Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?"

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When a fellow says it ain't about the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money."

— Kin Hubbard

"Money can't buy friends. But you can afford a better class of enemy."

— Lord Mancroft

"Money's only important when you don't have any."

— Sting

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

— Woody Allen

"A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."

— Everett Dirksen

"You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion."

— Eric S. Raymond

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."

— Adlai Stevenson

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary be rich."

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."