quotations about money
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
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
KARL MARX
Das Kapital
There are too many King Midases loose in the world. They do not have the Midas touch: they have the Midas look. They see nothing but money.... The universe, to them, is a balance-sheet: their minds are adding-machines: their hearts beat in tune with the ticker.
BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON
More Power to You
If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?
LEWIS H. LAPHAM
Money and Class in America
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
To despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, February 2, 1938
Having money is a way of being free of money.
ALBERT CAMUS
A Happy Death
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 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
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 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
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, 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
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
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
'Tis money that begets money.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
It is easy, of course, to point out the dangers resulting from a too intense devotion to money-getting. Bacon calls riches "the baggage of virtue"; and we all know how the Romans, in their heroic days, when they annihilated their foes, expressed their contempt by a similar word, impedimenta; and that when they grew weak and degraded they clung to their gold, with which they bought off the barbarians who invaded them. But whatever may be said of the dangers of riches, the dangers of poverty are tenfold greater. A condition in which one is exposed to continual want, not only of the luxuries but of the veriest necessaries of life, as well as to disease and discouragement, is exceedingly unfavorable to the exercise of the higher functions of the mind and soul. The poor man is hourly beset by troops of temptations which the rich man never knows. Doubtless the highest virtues are sometimes found to flourish even in the cold clime and sterile soil of poverty. Not only industry, honesty, frugality, perseverance amid hardships and ever-baffling discouragement, severe self-sacrifice, tender affections, unwavering trust in Providence, all are formed blooming in the hearts of the poorest poor--even in the sunless regions of absolute destitution, where honesty might be expected to wear an everlasting scowl of churlishness, and a bitter disbelief in the love of God to accompany obedience to the laws of man. But it is the most insufferable of all cants to hear these qualities spoken of as if they were indigenous to poverty, when we know that they flourish in spite of it.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
"Nationalsozialisten aus Berlin und aus dem Reich", Voelkischer Beobachter, February 4, 1927