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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

“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

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

“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

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

“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”

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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” - 1961

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

“Business . . . may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“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

“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

“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

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything . . . and when they grow older they know it.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.” L. Frank Baum, “The Marvelous Land of Oz” - 1904

“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

“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

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

“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” - 7 December 1926

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

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