quotations about money
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
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Thoughts
Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFET
The Tao of Warren Buffet
Money. Cause of all evil, Auri sacra fames. The god of the day--but not to be confused with Apollo.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Dictionary of Received Ideas
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Myth of Sisyphus
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
A man can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to a man's without harm.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
FRANCES BURNEY
The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
CHARLES DICKENS
Our Mutual Friend
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do.
OLIVER HEAVISIDE
Electromagnetic Theory
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Money was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
Never pretend to have money except when you are in straits. The poor man who pretends to have a bank account betters his credit and takes no risk. But the prosperous individual who counts his money in the street, forthwith will be invited to attend a charity bazaar.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Old Fox and the Young Fox", True Bills
Money ... is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better.
SAMUEL BUTLER
Erewhon
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
DONALD TRUMP
Trump: The Art of the Deal