Spencer Tracy

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

[On Roberts saying ‘I don’t know if I want to give up my whole management company and take it apart.’] Don’t be stupid. I’ll make you more money than you’ve made alone.

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

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

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.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

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

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

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in the world. Now that I’m old . . . I know it is.

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’.

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail!

Carpe per diem – seize the check.

The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.