quotations about money
Money was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
Dune: House Harkonnen
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
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.
ROY T. BENNETT
The Light in the Heart
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
"Nationalsozialisten aus Berlin und aus dem Reich", Voelkischer Beobachter, February 4, 1927
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
Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money -- That's what I want.
BERRY GORDY & JANIE BRADFORD
"Money (That's What I Want)"
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
For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do.
OLIVER HEAVISIDE
Electromagnetic Theory
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
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. 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
Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Neverÿon
When money talks, nobody cares what kind of grammar it uses.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
Poems and Paragraphs
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
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 doesn't talk, it swears obscenity.
BOB DYLAN
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
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
A group of politicians want to replace the dollar bill with a coin. Rappers would be out of business. You can't make it rain with coins. People would get hurt. Strippers would have to wear fanny packs. You can't fill up a thong with coins. Get rid of the penny. If it's not worth bending over for, it's not worth making.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, September 2011