Money Quotes

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

~ S.e. Hinton

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

~ Dan Ariely

Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

~ Lemony Snicket

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff

Money is like manure, it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

~ Thornton Wilder

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king. In return they received a royal monopoly on the issuance of banknotes. What this meant in practice was they had the right to advance IOUs for a portion of the money the king now owed them to any inhabitant of the kingdom willing to borrow from them, or willing to deposit their own money in the bank—in effect, to circulate or monetize the newly created royal debt. This was a great deal for the bankers (they got to charge the king 8 percent annual interest for the original loan and simultaneously charge interest on the same money to the clients who borrowed it) , but it only worked as long as the original loan remained outstanding. To this day, this loan has never been paid back. It cannot be. If it ever were, the entire monetary system of Great Britain would cease to exist.

~ David Graeber

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

~ George Best

Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.

~ Peter Joseph

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

~ Wendell Berry

I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.

~ Dodie Smith

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

~ Baruch Spinoza

If we ask, we should also be prepared to give.

~ Stephen Richards

Gold is the corpse of value...

~ Neal Stephenson

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. I Corinthians xiii (adapted)

~ George Orwell

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

~ Robert J. Mccracken

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

~ George Orwell

The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

We no longer live life. We consume it.

~ Vicki Robin

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

~ Lemony Snicket

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

~ Stephen Richards

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.

~ Stephen Richards

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

~ Vicki Robin

There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.

~ Kate Jacobs

Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

~ Jeff Lindsay

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

~ Stephen Fry

Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

~ David Sedaris

I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.

~ Jennifer Estep

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?

~ Émile Zola

Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

~ John Hersey

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

~ Mitch Albom

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

~ Maureen Johnson

I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.

~ Stephen Richards