Welcome to Dollar Quotes, a collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes about the mighty dollar. Money, in its various forms, holds a central place in our lives, influencing our decisions, shaping our aspirations, and reflecting the values of our societies. Whether celebrated as a symbol of success and prosperity or critiqued for its role in perpetuating inequality and greed, the dollar represents much more than just currency it embodies complex narratives of power, ambition, and human nature.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a diverse array of perspectives on the dollar, sourced from renowned thinkers, economists, entrepreneurs, and cultural figures throughout history. From pithy aphorisms to profound reflections, these quotes offer insights into the multifaceted relationship between individuals and money. Whether you seek inspiration, reflection, or simply a deeper understanding of the economic forces at play, Dollar Quotes invites you to explore the significance of the dollar in our lives and the world at large. Without further ado, delve into the treasury of wisdom waiting for you below.
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn’t so guaranteed if you don’t follow what they see as the norm. But I don’t moan about it. I just keep working. Marlee Matlin
Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better. Steve Wozniak
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Davy Crockett
It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent. Barack Obama
Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you’ll always be able to buy more food with your gold. Peter Schiff
Women’s boxing has received a major boost from the success of ‘Million Dollar Baby.’ Thomas Hauser
In the absence of relative equality – quid pro quo – a court might question whether there was an actual contract. If I give you a dollar, and you give me a mansion, our contract would lack quid pro quo. Zephyr Teachout
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert Einstein
As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ I had no facial hair. For ‘Men in Black 3,’ I had no facial hair but did wear a wig. Mike Colter
I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend! Joan Crawford
My parents didn’t know much science; in fact, they didn’t know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The U.S. government should not spend a single taxpayer dollar to teach children to dislike their country. Tommy Tuberville
And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over. Ed Rendell
Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened. Ron Paul
I’m not gonna deny it, I walk around with hundred dollar bills hanging out of my pocket. Cris Collinsworth
Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me. Kevin O’Leary
People do dollar cost averaging because they have regret of making one big mistake. But the fact of the matter is that, mathematically, the market rises more of the time than it falls. It falls, but it rises more of the time than it falls. Kenneth Fisher
A dollar saved is a quarter earned. John Ciardi
Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of ‘one dollar, one vote’ as opposed to ‘one person, one vote.’ Joseph Stiglitz
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver. P. J. O’Rourke
I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list. Steven Wright
The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn’t know which was which. Helen Mirren
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar. Billie Jean King
I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don’t realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached. Gary Johnson
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money. Lilly Ledbetter
Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold. Lysander Spooner
My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don’t tell me that my parents didn’t build their business. Nikki Haley
I’m a huge fan of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ and I love the episodes where they would cross over with ‘The Bionic Woman.’ Marc Guggenheim
I actually believe ‘Sustainability’, as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it’s this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry. Brandon Boyd
We don’t put a dollar toward marketing or advertising. I think we’re more efficient than Facebook. Pavel Durov
Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law. Jodi Kantor
I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend. Joan Crawford
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on. Dolly Parton
When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we’d have $22 million for cancer research, and I don’t care, man, there’s no reason that isn’t possible. No reason! Terry Fox
Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they’re just regular people. Like Larry King. We’ve been friends for forty years. He’s one of the few guys I know who’s really famous. One minute he’s talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he’s saying to me, ‘Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?’ Don Rickles
Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of ‘one,’ everything becomes that much more attainable. Mick Ebeling
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart. W. C. Fields
The financial markets are rigged by the big banks, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury in the interests of the profits of the few big banks and the dollar’s exchange value, which is the basis of U.S. power. Paul Craig Roberts
Bitcoin has been described as a decentralized, peer-to-peer virtual currency that is used like money – it can be exchanged for traditional currencies such as the U.S. dollar or used to purchase goods or services, usually online. Unlike traditional currencies, Bitcoin operates without central authority or banks and is not backed by any government. Perianne Boring
I’m never gonna owe money because every time I get a dollar, I put it into another business, whether it’s to buy goods or develop other companies. You don’t have money; you have companies. That’s one business model. That’s mine. And I only associate with other people that are putting up their own money, ’cause they’re the only ones that can relate. Damon Dash
My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, ‘I almost didn’t recognize you without a hat on’, I could have bought the Cowboys myself. Tom Landry
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. Andrew Carnegie
The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was ‘Everybody’s got a price.’ Ted DiBiase Sr.
The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn’t really a shortcut there. Sam Altman
Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills. Clifford Odets
My first publication was a haiku in a children’s magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk. Linda Sue Park
The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats. Joe Davis
My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on the wall in whatever flat we were in. Robbie Williams
They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead. Henry A. Wallace
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. Abraham Lincoln
Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed. Curtis Carlson
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It’s such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community. Karin Slaughter
I don’t want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I’m not perfect, and I’m just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know? Nas
The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts. Lee Majors
With a multi-billion dollar market capitalization, crypto is here to stay. It’s not going anywhere. Ritchie Torres
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It’s a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States. Amanda Hearst
It was early on in 1965 when I wrote some of my first poems. I sent a poem to ‘Harper’s’ magazine because they paid a dollar a line. I had an eighteen-line poem, and just as I was putting it into the envelope, I stopped and decided to make it a thirty-six-line poem. It seemed like the poem came back the next day: no letter, nothing. August Wilson
The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. Smedley Butler
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? Steven Spielberg
The sacrifices you make in your 20s pay off 30 and 40 years later. The same is true when it comes to financial progress. Every dime saved in your 20s turns into a dollar in your 60s. Jason Whitlock
I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I’d have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing. Judy Holliday
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. Jim Bishop
Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job. Stanley Kubrick
We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children. Beeban Kidron
If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent. Michael Sandel
Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure. Geoffrey Canada
Vaccines are the most cost-effective health care interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare. Ezekiel Emanuel
In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire. Jeffree Star
Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that. Jeff Bezos
I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the ‘luxury remodeling’ bug. ‘Million Dollar Rooms,’ ‘Million Dollar Listing’… any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home! Laz Alonso
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. Lysander Spooner
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystanders. Chris Rock
Vince McMahon is an intimidating individual because of the amount of respect he commands because of what he’s done for entertainment, turning the business into a billion dollar success story. He rarely sleeps. He’s a workaholic. He’s passionate. He loves what he does. Mauro Ranallo
If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. Jimmy Carter
As money, Bitcoin achieves two objectives; it’s both a unit of transaction as well as being a store of value. The U.S. dollar, for example, is a unit of transaction, but it is not a store of value. Max Keiser
I’m not a gambling-man. I have never bet a dollar in all my life. John Forsythe
As the dollar’s exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases. Paul Craig Roberts
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that. Ashton Kutcher
I can’t buy the happiness I see on people’s faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill. Keith Jackson
When I saw Adele, I thought: ‘I’ll give it an hour before people say I was her,’ just because I was fat. When you watch ‘X Factor,’ you can bet your bottom dollar, every single fat singer sounds like me as far as the judges are concerned. Can you imagine if they did that with every black artist? Alison Moyet
I don’t care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I’d want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I’d want to be the best at whatever I do. Branch Rickey
It’s much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That’s the truth. Oprah Winfrey
Being able to borrow against one’s crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market. Brock Pierce
On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. David Ogilvy
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. Henry Ford
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It’s like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up. Nathan Myhrvold
Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That’s had a big impact on crime and poverty. Damian Marley
It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company. Bernie Sanders
The truth is, after Boys Don’t Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby. Hilary Swank
For every dollar you give away, you’ll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you’ll lose a thousand. Albert R. Broccoli
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight. William J. H. Boetcker
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. Bill Vaughan
I’ve tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me. Casey Stengel
We created Addepar because we saw a place where a multi-billion dollar global platform clearly should exist – but did not yet – to fix many of the challenges that exist in the finance industry. Joe Lonsdale
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed – chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. John Muir
I don’t think my basic business strategy is well known by the public, probably because people think it’s too simple. My strategy has always been to try to focus in on a product or service where you can create a dollar of value for 20 cents and sell it for 40 cents. Thomas Peterffy
If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam – oh wait, he does. Ann Coulter
Virtual currency, where it’s called a bitcoin vs. a U.S. dollar, that’s going to be stopped. No government will ever support a virtual currency that goes around borders and doesn’t have the same controls. It’s not going to happen. Jamie Dimon
You always worry about the devaluation of the dollar, but the devaluation of the dollar is based oftentimes on what the government decides to do. Francis X. Suarez