quotations about money
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
When I had money, money, O!
I knew no joy till I went poor;
For many a false man as a friend
Came knocking all day at my door.
WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES
Money
There is no sacrifice which men will not make for money. They will face belching cannon, clog their lungs with the dust of coal-mines or with the impalpable powder inhaled in the grinding of steel, become workers in arsenic, lead, phospherous, or any of the other substances so fatal to life, blast with gun-powder, live amid malaria, and risk their soul's peace in this world and the next, for gold. No toil is so exhausting, no danger so appalling, that men will not confront the one and undergo the other, if the stakes are only sufficiently high. "A certain ten percent," says an English economist, "will insure the employment of capital anywhere. Twenty percent certain will produce eagerness. Fifty percent, positive audacity. One hundred percent will make it ready to trample on all human laws. Three hundred percent, and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged." Even the preacher's call swells from "the still small voice" to a trumpet peal when it comes from the offer of a double salary. Harassing doubts and indecision vanish like a dew before the logic of five thousand a year and a parsonage. The parish that is made up of rich merchants, brokers, and capitalists, is seen to be "a larger field of labor" when viewed through gold spectacles.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
What is not exchanged for money is in the same state with respect to the money, as if it did not exist.
KARL MARX
Collected Works of Karl Marx
Having money is a way of being free of money.
ALBERT CAMUS
A Happy Death
To despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, February 2, 1938
'Tis money that begets money.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Be your money's master, not its slave.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
NORA ROBERTS
Tribute
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off.
ALEX GARLAND
The Beach
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
KARL MARX
Das Kapital
If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.
EPICTETUS
The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments
Money ... is like a beautiful thoroughbred horse--very powerful & always in action, but unless this horse is trained when very young, it will be an out-of-control & dangerous animal when it grows to maturity.
DAVE RAMSEY
Financial Peace Revisited
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
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
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims