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“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship; and again, who dainties love, shall beggars prove; and moreover, fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Money is only a tool in business.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for, he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“the truth is you don’t need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.” JAY-Z, Decoded

“And his money he cannot eat.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Then justice will be useful when money is useless.” Plato, The Republic

“You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don’t change you, they just further expose your...” JAY-Z, Decoded

“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving; it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative...” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

“rich people don’t like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn’t pretty and perfect.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“He also gave me a piece of advice that I have always remembered, namely, that, if I was not going to earn money, I must even things up by not spending it.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.” Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.” Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Because beauty is power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” Jane Austen, Emma

“money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good...” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.” Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

“Then we may begin by assuming that there are three classes of men—lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain?” Plato, The Republic

“One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected. As things stand, admiration and respect are given to the man who seems to be rich. This is the chief reason why people wish to be rich. The actual goods...” Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzzp! — Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“We have come to a political deification of Mammon.” Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

“Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.” Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address

“So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another— their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.” Linus Torvalds

“That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all — the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Yes, the money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilisation. 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...” Franklin D. Roosevelt, Looking Forward

“When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.” Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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