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“Money is only a tool in business.”
Henry Ford
,
My Life and Work
“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”
Adam Smith
,
The Wealth of Nations
“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
J. D. Salinger
,
The Catcher in the Rye
“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
“Then justice will be useful when money is useless.”
Plato
,
The Republic
“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
“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
“Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
,
Vanity Fair
“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
“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
“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
“Time is money, but also money is money.”
William Gibson
,
Pattern Recognition
“And his money he cannot eat.”
Karl Marx
,
Das Kapital
“Because beauty is power the way money is power the way a loaded gun is power.”
Chuck Palahniuk
,
Invisible Monsters
“Hence, money may be dirt, although dirt is not money.”
Karl Marx
,
Das Kapital
“Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.”
Karl Marx
,
Das Kapital
“Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.”
William Shakespeare
,
The Taming of the Shrew
“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
“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything . . . and when they grow older they know it.”
Oscar Wilde
,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“gold and silver . . . are . . . the direct incarnation of all human labour. Hence the magic of money.”
Karl Marx
,
Das Kapital
“the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.”
Ayn Rand
,
Atlas Shrugged
“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
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
,
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
“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
“money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses”
Louisa May Alcott
,
Little Women
“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
“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”
Milton Friedman
,
Capitalism and Freedom
“It was his first sharp experience with the rule that without money you cannot fight money.”
John Steinbeck
,
East of Eden
“Coin is the sinews of war.”
François Rabelais
,
Gargantua and Pantagruel
“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
“After all, marriage is marriage, and money's money—both useful things in their way ...”
Edith Wharton
,
The Age of Innocence
“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
Jane Austen
,
Emma
“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
“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.”
Henry Ford
,
My Life and Work
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Jane Austen
,
Mansfield Park
“A coin is as dangerous as a sword in the wrong hands.”
George R. R. Martin
,
A Storm of Swords
“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
“There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”
Patrick Rothfuss
,
The Name of the Wind
“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
“Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.”
Margaret Mitchell
,
Gone with the Wind
“Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold will tempt unto a close exploit of death?”
William Shakespeare
,
Richard III
“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
Herman Melville
,
Moby-Dick
“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
“We have come to a political deification of Mammon.”
Theodore Roosevelt
,
Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography
“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
“Make the advocacy of radical causes sufficiently remunerative, and the supply of advocates will be unlimited.”
Milton Friedman
,
Capitalism and Freedom
“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
“Buy what thou hast no need of, and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries.”
Benjamin Franklin
,
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“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
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