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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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.” 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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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

“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

“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

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything . . . and when they grow older they know it.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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