MONEY QUOTES VIII

quotations about money

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

JAMES BALDWIN

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy", Esquire, May 1961

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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

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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

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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

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Money is freedom. Money is a private plane. Money is no metal detection.

50 CENT

Esquire, January 2010

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Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

DONALD TRUMP

How to Get Rich

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Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

FRANCES BURNEY

The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

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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

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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.

CARYLL HOUSELANDER

The Reed of God

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Money is an agreement within a community to use something as a medium of exchange.

BERNARD LIETAER

The Future of Money


Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

CHARLES DICKENS

Our Mutual Friend

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Money ... is founded merely on convention; its currency and value depending on the mutable wills of men.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

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Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.

WARREN BUFFET

The Tao of Warren Buffet

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Discourse on Inequality

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Money is an information system we use to deploy human effort.

MICHAEL LINTON

attributed, Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender


Money ... is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Erewhon


Love and money should properly have nothing to do with each other.

JOHN SAUL

Guardian

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For most wooden-headed people worship money; and, really, I do not see what else they can do.

OLIVER HEAVISIDE

Electromagnetic Theory


A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Myth of Sisyphus

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