quotations about money
The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.
DAVID GERROLD
Under the Eye of God
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
JAMES BALDWIN
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy", Esquire, May 1961
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Paris Review, winter 1997
Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.
DONALD TRUMP
How to Get Rich
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
We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
CHARLES DICKENS
Our Mutual Friend
Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
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
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 seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Discourse on Inequality
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do.
OLIVER HEAVISIDE
Electromagnetic Theory
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