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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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” - 2010

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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” - 2010

“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

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

“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

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

“A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“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

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

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

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“I don't ask for money. I don't ask for sexual favors. I don't ask for access to the hardware you design and sell. I just ask for the thing I gave you: source code that I can use myself.” Linus Torvalds - 2010

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

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

“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 - 1998

“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

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” Charles Dickens, “David Copperfield” - 1850

“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” - 1957

“Make the advocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.” Milton Friedman, “Capitalism and Freedom” - 1962

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

“the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“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” - 1928

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

“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” - 1957

“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”

“Because beauty is power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“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” - 2003

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

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

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