quotations about money
The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One must have been, at some time or other, in a situation where a small sum was as necessary almost as life itself, with no more ability to raise it than to raise the dead, before he can fully appreciate the value of money.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Gifts of Fortune", Les Caractères
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
CHARLES DICKENS
Our Mutual Friend
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
CARYLL HOUSELANDER
The Reed of God
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
We insist that "money is the root of all evil," and behave as if it were the source of all good.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.
DONALD TRUMP
How to Get Rich
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on ... But you've got to begin ... You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Swift as Desire
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFET
The Tao of Warren Buffet
Your lovin' gives me a thrill
But your lovin' don't pay my bills
I need money -- That's what I want.
BERRY GORDY & JANIE BRADFORD
"Money (That's What I Want)"
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind