Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl MarxThose have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Benjamin FranklinTo be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSome artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Lady GagaThere is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy GrahamIt’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.
Steve JobsI had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.
Haruki MurakamiMy family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle ObamaI don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.
Joel OsteenI know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.
Barack ObamaNothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia WoolfThe circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
James MadisonI absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.
Dwayne JohnsonI’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.
George LucasI think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.
Steve JobsPeople don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
Dolly PartonI’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.
Henny YoungmanNo man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel JohnsonI have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.
Terry PratchettHonesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark TwainAmerica… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. ThompsonMoney is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton SennaOf course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
Paulo CoelhoAn actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn MonroeThe lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark TwainMoney, 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 BaldwinThe money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
Noam ChomskyI can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham LincolnIt’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.
Richard BransonWhen a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.
George Bernard ShawCapitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
Fidel CastroMoney often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard ShawModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostMoney won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson MandelaGod wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Joel OsteenI would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Andrew CarnegieThe civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles DickensAs a precious metal, silver is also money.
Robert KiyosakiIn the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.
Robert KiyosakiMoney is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack ObamaSuccessful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
Wayne DyerThe wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.
Robert GreeneI mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.
Barack ObamaWhat’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob DylanThe glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
Thomas JeffersonYou start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.
Lady GagaPretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve JobsI know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. RockefellerIn today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.
Kanye WestRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauI try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.
EminemWell, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
Joe BidenMoney is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.
Terry PratchettWhen the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim CarreyMoney is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis BaconMoney is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne DyerMoney is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur SchopenhauerNo one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher