quotations about money
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
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
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
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, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
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
'Tis money that begets money.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Be your money's master, not its slave.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
KARL MARX
Das Kapital
Whatever you want must first be born in mind; nothing can come into the objective world that is not already in mind. Human beings have different wants and different ideals. While money in itself has no value except as it is employed as a medium of exchange, and to promote health, happiness and usefulness; hence, in the last analysis, money is an important factor in helping to bring into outward expression ideas and ideals, which are first born in mind.
WALTER MATTHEWS
"Money", Human Life from Many Angles
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
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
NORA ROBERTS
Tribute
But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Of what use is wealth to him who neither gives nor enjoys it? Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. There is no man more deserving of pity than he who spends his whole life amassing money, without making any use of it.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays, vol. II
No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.
LARRY MCMURTRY
Some Can Whistle
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
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana