quotations about money
Having money is a way of being free of money.
ALBERT CAMUS
A Happy Death
All the illusions in regard to the monetary system are due to the fact that money is not regarded as something representing a social relation of production, but as a product of nature endowed with certain properties. The modern economists who sneer at the illusions of the monetary system, betray the same illusion as soon as they have to deal with higher economic forms, as, e.g., capital. It breaks forth in their confession of naïve surprise, when what they have just thought to have defined with great difficulty as a thing suddenly appears as a social relation and then reappears to tease them again as a thing, before they have barely managed to define it as a social relation.
KARL MARX
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
After initial needs are met--enough food, shelter, comfort--there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.
GENEEN ROTH
interview, Origin Magazine
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
The miser who clings to his money and will not give up any of it because of the pleasure which its possession affords him cannot have any of the material comforts of life. He lives in continual want and discomfort in spite of all his wealth.
JAMES ALLEN
Byways of Blessedness
Money is the seal and stamp of success.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
For me, money is easy to come by. I enjoy spending money. I rarely worry about money. Money flows in and out of my life. my life is too short to worry about money. I always have enough money to be comfortable.
TERRAN JAMES
Money and Success is Mind Over Matter
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
To despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, February 2, 1938
I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off.
ALEX GARLAND
The Beach
Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
All my money is tied up in Skee ball tickets.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, August 4, 2011
When a man makes a specialty of knowing how some other fellow ought to spend his money, he usually thinks in millions and works for hundreds.
GEORGE HORACE LORIMER
Old Gorgon Graham
Money had no name of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Money is part of the private capital of an individual only if and so far as it constitutes a means by which the individual in question can obtain other capital goods.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Theory of Money and Credit
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
'Tis money that begets money.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
Of what use is wealth to him who neither gives nor enjoys it? Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. There is no man more deserving of pity than he who spends his whole life amassing money, without making any use of it.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays, vol. II
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
FRED ROGERS
"Mister Rogers' Money Tips", The Motley Fool, January 20, 2006
We ought not to have more use and esteem of money and coin than of stones. And the devil seeks to blind those who desire or value it more than stones. Let us therefore take care lest after having left all things we lose the kingdom of heaven for such a trifle. And if we should chance to find money in any place, let us no more regard it than the dust we tread under our feet.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
First Rule of the Friars Minor