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“Money is only a tool in business.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.” Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” - 1776

“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” - 1858

“And his money he cannot eat.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“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” - 1776

“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” - 1776

“We have come to a political deification of Mammon.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

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

“Coin is the sinews of war.” François Rabelais, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” - 1534

“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.” Milton Friedman, “Capitalism and Freedom” - 1962

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park” - 1814

“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold will tempt unto a close exploit of death?” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“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” - 1847

“I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here.” William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wives of Windsor” - 1602

“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” - 1876

“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” - 1997

“And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“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” - 1776

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.” Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” - 1776

“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” - 1913

“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” - 1791

“Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.” Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” - 1791

“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” - 1791

“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” - 1791

“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”

“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“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” - 1906

“He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.” W. Somerset Maugham, “Of Human Bondage” - 1915

“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“Hence, money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“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” - 1845

“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” - 1998

“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” - 1998

“It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“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” - 1934

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzzp! — Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“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” - 1933

“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” - 1974

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.” Warren Buffett, “The Essays of Warren Buffett” - 1997

“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” - 2010

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