Money Quotes

Work or die’—this is the essence of slavery, of compulsion. And yet this is our world. Most of our world is enslaved but does not know it. Only the homeless are free, and for their freedom we sentence them to death. To refuse compulsion is to earn death, suffering, and calumny. It is not to refuse work—the homeless work very hard, endure many hardships we cannot imagine in our comfortable slavery. And yet we call our slavery freedom. We do not know what freedom means, yet.

~ Robert Peate

What could be better for slave owners than slaves who think they’re free? This is the greatest trick ever pulled: a nation of slaves who think they’re free. Slaves must be fed, housed, even clothed. But if they must feed, house, and clothe themselves as ‘payment’ for their work, this removes burden from the slave owner—while the same work is performed and accomplished, to the benefit of the slave owner. The best part is that slaves who think they’re free will never work to end their slavery. They will look down on those who do not work. To work to end their slavery, they must first learn they are slaves. This is the hardest task of all: to free their minds.

~ Robert Peate

Measure your day not by the money you're earning but by the unconditional love that you're giving away.

~ Debasish Mridha

Humans do worse things with money rather than for money.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my life. I don't want things to happen to me, I want them to happen because of me. Power I want. I want to feel the way I do when I stretch a new canvas and I want to feel that way all the time. the blank canvas fills me with the power of imminent creation. I'm its god an it always bends to my will and when I'm done I know, inside, that it's markedly better than what almost all of my similarly-engaged others can achieve. That's happiness.

~ Sergio De La Pava

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

~ Roger Starr

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it.

~ Leslie Ford

She had golden blazing sun kissed hair, which hung down in loose, lazy spirals, a heart shaped pouted mouth, which was pink tinged with violet blushing, wide, spangled blue eyes that glimmered sparks to flicker and ember in the vivid intelligence of the moon’s love, and a yielding body, that seem to tangle in loose rhythm as I walked near to her.

~ Keira D. Skye

I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman.

~ James M. Cain

Money holds terrible power when it is loved

~ Elisabeth Elliot

It's easy to make money when you have a lot of it.

~ Max Tegmark

And yet all the gold is in England, it is dug up from Portuguese and Spanish mines, but it flows by some occult power of attraction to the Tower of London.” “Flows,” Caroline repeated. “Flows, like a current.” Sophie nodded. “And the English have grown so used to this that they use ‘currency’ as a synonym for money, as if no distinction need be observed between them.

~ Neal Stephenson

How does a poor country defeat rich ones?” “Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it.” “Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?” “But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel.” “Currency!” “Indeed.

~ Neal Stephenson

Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

~ Lee Child

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.

~ Bruce Sterling

It is a curious thought that the earliest description of the steam-engine in antiquity describes its use for the magic opening of the temple doors, when the priests lit the fires on the altars, to deceive the populace into ascribing to a deity what was the work of the engineer. In much the same way today, the almost boundless fecundity of the creative scientific discoveries and inventions of the age are being appropriated for the purpose of the mysterious opening of doors into the holy of holies of the temples of mammon by a hierarchy of imposters and humbugs, whom it is the first task of a sane civilization to expose and clear out.

~ Frederick Soddy

The financial markets are not to be trusted. They expect to be given free reign to make huge profits while the sun is shining, but hasten to the shelter of the state when the skies darken.

~ Peter Stalker

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature’s gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart’s desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature’s gifts, to use them well.

~ Charles Eisenstein

Time... is an essential requirement for effective research. An investigator may be given a palace to live in, a perfect laboratory to work in, he may be surrounded by all the conveniences money can provide; but if his time is taken from him he will remain sterile.

~ Walter Bradford Cannon

Now, money, for the night is coming. Money for my hair, money for my teeth, money for shoes that won't deform my feet (it's not so easy now to walk around in cheap shoes with very high heels), money for good clothes, money, money. The night is coming.

~ Jean Rhys

I'm financially ugly.

~ Rea Lidde

If wealth is a blessing from God, then salvation was designed for the wealthy. Money can never please your soul.

~ Felix Wantang

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

~ Sara Sheridan

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

~ Carew Papritz

Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.

~ Carew Papritz

Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Definition of money is the reward you get for solving people`s problems.

~ Sunday Adelaja

So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends me.

~ Karen Joy Fowler

Fame, girls, fast cars, penthouses and what not; the whole problem is because everyone wants the same things from life.

~ Daya Kudari

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can’t resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It seems only easier when money is involved.

~ Anthony Liccione

Better to have too much time to manage, than too much money that manages all your time

~ Benny Bellamacina

It was such a feeling of developing your inner self to the people who liked to dig deeper and deeper until you cannot fathom the deepest evil in you.

~ Fernando Lachica

Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.

~ Aristotle

Your money does not define your standard, your personality does.

~ V.kuotsu

Continuing to tell stories of shortage only continues to contradict your desire for abundance, and you cannot have it both ways: You cannot focus upon unwanted and recieve wanted. You cannot focus upon stories about money that make you feel uncomfortable and allow into your experience what makes you feel comfortable. A different story will bring different results: My thoughts are the basis for the attraction of all things that I consider to be good, which includes enough money, and health, for my comfort and joy.

~ Abraham Hicks

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar