quotations about money
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
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
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
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
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)"
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Money spent withdraws its charm.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Money doesn't talk, it swears obscenity.
BOB DYLAN
"It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Swift as Desire
Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFET
The Tao of Warren Buffet
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 is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
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
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
How beauteous are rouleaus! how charming chests
Containing ingots, bags of dollars, coins
(Not of old victors, all whose heads and crests
Weigh not the thin ore where their visage shines,
But) of fine unclipt gold, where dully rests
Some likeness, which the glittering cirque confines,
Of modern, reigning, sterling, stupid stamp;--
Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan