Money, money, money! You can tell how important something is to a society by how many synonyms or slang words it has for a term -- like how they say Eskimo's have a lot of words for snow.
A quick search and we found 111 synonyms and/slang terms for money... the list below, for fun... hmm, what does that say?
List of 111 Other Words for Money
bacon, bands, bank, banknote, bankroll, bankrolls, bar, benjamins, big bucks, bills, biscuits, bisquick, blue cheddar, blue cheese, bones, bread, brick, broccoli, buckaroos, bucks, c-notes, cabbage, cake, capital, cash, cash money, check, cheddar, cheese, chips, chits, chump change, clam, clams, coin, coinage, commas, cream, dead presidents, dime, dinero, dollars, dosh, doubloons, dough, ducats, fetti, filthy lucre, finances, five-spot, fivers, folding stuff, frog, frog skins, frogskins, funds, gold, grand, gravy, green, greenbacks, guac, guineas, gwop, half-yard, honk, hundies, jacksons, knots, lampshade, large, lincolns, lolly, long green, loot, lucci, mazuma, milk, monkey, moola, moola/moolah, notes, nugget, paper, payola, pesos, plunder, quid, rack, readies, resources, rhino, riches, rock, roll, sawbucks, scratch, scrilla, shekels, shillings, silver, smackers, specie, stacks, ten-spot, tenners, treasure, turkey, wad, wonga, and yard.
(Thanks to WritingExplained.org, WikiPedia, and Thesaurus.com for the terms.)
Herein we present a slew of great quotes about money for you to ponder and share. Enjoy!
We wish you a most prosperous day!
Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.
Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.
Boasting about wealth is an open invitation to others to divest you of it.
We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
Wealth does not make people happy, but positive increases in wealth may.
Fortune is like glass -- the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
The thing about using other people's money is they're going to set the rules.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
When you hit the big time, big money, big egos, people don't talk. You have no friends.
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.
I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.
When you borrow money, you should always think how you're going to pay it back.
