quotations about money
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
FRED ROGERS
"Mister Rogers' Money Tips", The Motley Fool, January 20, 2006
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN
Mark Twain's Notebook
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
ENGLISH PROVERB
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
It is money, or rather the want of it, which makes men workers. It is the appetizing provocative that teases the business nerve of more than half the world; while most of the results of ingenuity, skill, intellect, tact, address, and competition, depend upon its unremitting pursuit. Want of money is the great principle of moral gravitation, the only power that is strong enough to keep things in their places. It is this scantiness of means, this continual deficiency, this constant hitch, this perpetual struggle to keep the head above water and the wolf from the door, that keeps society from falling to pieces. Let every man in the community have, as a rule, a few dollars more than he wants, and anarchy would follow.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
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
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
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
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
If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.
JARON LANIER
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.
ARISTOTLE
Politics