quotations about money
All the illusions in regard to the monetary system are due to the fact that money is not regarded as something representing a social relation of production, but as a product of nature endowed with certain properties. The modern economists who sneer at the illusions of the monetary system, betray the same illusion as soon as they have to deal with higher economic forms, as, e.g., capital. It breaks forth in their confession of naïve surprise, when what they have just thought to have defined with great difficulty as a thing suddenly appears as a social relation and then reappears to tease them again as a thing, before they have barely managed to define it as a social relation.
KARL MARX
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
NORA ROBERTS
Tribute
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN
The Rover
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
After initial needs are met--enough food, shelter, comfort--there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.
GENEEN ROTH
interview, Origin Magazine
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
What is not exchanged for money is in the same state with respect to the money, as if it did not exist.
KARL MARX
Collected Works of Karl Marx
Money alone sets all the world in motion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
Having money is a way of being free of money.
ALBERT CAMUS
A Happy Death
All my money is tied up in Skee ball tickets.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, August 4, 2011
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
To despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, February 2, 1938
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Money, like a running horse, should be kept--well-in-hand.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
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
Of what use is wealth to him who neither gives nor enjoys it? Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. There is no man more deserving of pity than he who spends his whole life amassing money, without making any use of it.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays, vol. II
There is no sacrifice which men will not make for money. They will face belching cannon, clog their lungs with the dust of coal-mines or with the impalpable powder inhaled in the grinding of steel, become workers in arsenic, lead, phospherous, or any of the other substances so fatal to life, blast with gun-powder, live amid malaria, and risk their soul's peace in this world and the next, for gold. No toil is so exhausting, no danger so appalling, that men will not confront the one and undergo the other, if the stakes are only sufficiently high. "A certain ten percent," says an English economist, "will insure the employment of capital anywhere. Twenty percent certain will produce eagerness. Fifty percent, positive audacity. One hundred percent will make it ready to trample on all human laws. Three hundred percent, and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged." Even the preacher's call swells from "the still small voice" to a trumpet peal when it comes from the offer of a double salary. Harassing doubts and indecision vanish like a dew before the logic of five thousand a year and a parsonage. The parish that is made up of rich merchants, brokers, and capitalists, is seen to be "a larger field of labor" when viewed through gold spectacles.
WILLIAM MATHEWS
"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life
But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.
ARISTOTLE
Politics
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