Willie Sutton

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

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.

Money frees you from things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money comes in handy.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

Today, there are three kinds of people: the have’s, the have-not’s, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-have’s.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.

I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.

If you want to make a million you don’t have to understand money, what you have to understand is people’s fears about money.

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

If a person gets his attitude towards money straight, it will straighten out almost every other area in his life.

When I started to make more or less serious money – for those times – then, of course, I wanted to show everyone that life is different: it’s a new kind of life; we are earning this money. We wanted to pay taxes and live honestly.

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.