quotations about money
Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.
50 CENT
Esquire, January 2010
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
Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Nominalist and Realist", Essays
Money spent withdraws its charm.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
JOHN UPDIKE
Rabbit is Rich
One just spends as much money as one has. Very peculiar that! You never actually have any money. You think, If I had this much money ten years ago, I would have thought I was amazingly rich, but I still manage to spend it all and not have any left.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Paris Review, winter 1997
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
In matters of money there's no such thing as enough.
JEAN ANOUILH
Thieves' Carnival
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
Philippics
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFET
The Tao of Warren Buffet
For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do.
OLIVER HEAVISIDE
Electromagnetic Theory
Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.
JOHN SAUL
Guardian
Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.
MICHAEL LINTON
attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender
It's easy to clean up when you got money.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
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
Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.
BERNARD LIETAER
The Future of Money
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
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
Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts