A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. Henry Ford
It’s a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. Bob Hope
It doesn’t matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You’re still left alone with yourself in the end. Billy Idol
If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. J Paul Getty
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. Oliver Wendell Holmes junior
I’ve made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard. Paris Hilton
A fool and his money are soon parted. Thomas Tusser
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D H Lawrence
Marrying into money was not a good thing for me. Anna Nicole Smith
This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there’s people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got forty billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t. Tupac Shakur
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul. Bob Dylan, Masters of war
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can’t beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
It’s amazing. The moment you show cash, everyone knows your language. Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation? Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
The circulation of money as capital is an end in itself, for the expansion of value takes place only within this constantly renewed movement. The circulation of capital has therefore no limits. Karl Marx
I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all of the time. Hilaire Belloc, 1870-1953
Easy money is bullshit. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s8e5: Easy Money, Showtime 2010
Is multi-level marketing just a multi-level tower of bullshit? ibid.
Multi-level marketing is sold not only as easy money but as a chance of unlimited income. ibid.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it; there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. Benjamin Franklin
The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution. Benjamin Franklin
This is simple. In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Script. We issue it in proper proportion to the demand of trade and industry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In the manner creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no-one. Benjamin Franklin
In one year the conditions were so reversed that the era of prosperity ended, and a depression set in, to such an extent that the streets of the colonies were filled with unemployment. Benjamin Franklin
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment, and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the revolutionary war. Benjamin Franklin, autobiography
Remember that credit is money. Benjamin Franklin
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies ... If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency ... The banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson, attributed & patchwork of three separate letters
I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution – taking from government their power of borrowing. Thomas Jefferson
The states should be asked to transfer the right of issuing paper money to Congress in perpetuity. Thomas Jefferson
Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge of bank paper. It is cruel that such revolutions in private fortunes should be at the mercy of avaricious adventurers, who, instead of employing their capital, if any they have, in manufactures, commerce, and other useful pursuits, make it an instrument to burden all the interchanges of property with their swindling profits, profits which are the price of no useful industry of theirs. Thomas Jefferson
Paper is poverty ... It is the ghost of money, and not money itself. Thomas Jefferson
The Treasury, lacking confidence in the country, delivered itself bound hand and foot to bold and bankrupt ... bankers pretending to have money, whom it could have crushed at any moment. Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it. Thomas Jefferson, attributions & variations
It is not our own citizens only who are to receive the bounty of our government. More than eight millions of the stock of the bank are held by foreigners ... Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? Andrew Jackson
Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence ... Would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy. Andrew Jackson, 1832
And we know now that government by organised money is just as dangerous as government by organised mob. Theodore Roosevelt
Wake up you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so valuable? Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance. James Madison