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“Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.”
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) said by 1637 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inflation is an increase in the quantity of money without a corresponding increase in the demand for money, i.e., for cash holdings.”
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Free Market and Its Enemies, speech to the Foundation for Economic Education (1951)
“The cumulative development of a medium of exchange on the free market — is the only way money can become established. … government is powerless to create money for the economy; it can only be developed by the processes of the free market.”
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inflation may be defined as any increase in the economy's supply of money not consisting of an increase in the stock of the money metal.”
Murray Rothbard (1926–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My God, what am I doing here? It's weird. How do you get to the Met? Money! Lots and lots of money! I can imagine Pavarotti next door at the improv going, "Two Jews walk into a bar...”
Robin Williams (1951–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't doubt that the number of H1N1 cases out there is being hyped. And for many of the same reasons that AIDS was—and still is—hyped in Africa. Everything in Africa's called AIDS. The reason is they get aid money for it. AIDS is the biggest pile of-the biggest pot they throw money into.”
Rush Limbaugh (1951–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October, 2009 (; ; ; )
“When a fellow says, "It hain't the money, but th' principle o' the thing," it's th' money.”
Kin Hubbard (1868–1930) first seen 1926 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hoss Sense and Nonsense (1926).
“From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.”
Wendell Berry (1934–2026) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union" in Entries (1997)
“When you learn to make everybody happy, you will possess the golden secret of how to milk the contented voters. But do it in such a way that they won’t think you want them to vote for you just because you need the money. They need the money, and besides, they can think up other reasons if they try.”
Gracie Allen (1895–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I did comedy for a fundraiser, cuz I have a big heart. We were trying to raise money for one of those machines that shows how much money has been raised.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, let me tell you something about George Bush and oil money and Obama and no money. People want to say Obama can't make these moves or he's not executing. That's because he ain't got those connections. Black people don't have the same level of connections as Jewish people. Black people don't have the same connections as oil people.”
Kanye West (born 1977) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: more from 26 November 2013 interview, cited by HuffPo article
“You can get a much better fee — I tell you as auditors quite frankly — it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philadelphia Doctorate Course" #15 (1952).
“Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's fucking PSYCHOTIC!”
Lewis Black (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, they’re going to elect that Stupid Hoover, and he’s going to have some trouble. He’s going to have to spend money, but it won’t be enough. Then the Democrats will come in. But they don’t know anything about money.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Secret Service agent Edmund Starling, as quoted in The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself (2014), by James Grant
“I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money and equally of no sharp decline in the stock of money that was not accompanied by a severe depression.”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
“For both long and short periods there is a consistent though not precise relation between the rate of growth of the quantity of money and the rate of growth of nominal income. If the quantity of money grows rapidly, so will nominal income, and conversely. The relation is much closer for long than for short periods”
Milton Friedman (1912–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If money-making was my aim, I could have done two ad films or shows and earned the same amount of money -- probably more -- in just two or four days.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If somebody is working very hard, or deserves a lot of money, pay him upfront, say he is going to be working for so much time, he deserves it – and then put the rest of the money where it should go. But unfortunately, that sort of transparency is rarely there.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The customer pays his money and gets a ticket. He cannot refuse it. He cannot get the money back. He may protest to the machine, even swear at it. But it will remain unmoved.”
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899–1999) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd [1971] 2QB 163; 1 All ER 686.
“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”
Thomas Sowell (born 1930) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During a discussion in Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" television series in 1980.
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
Thomas Sowell (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In democratic politics it is money that commands. And the money is Jewish. [180]”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you're 10, your parents are the bank! You know what I mean? If I'm 10 and I need money, [can] I walk into Chase Bank and get money? The teller's just gonna say to me "What do I look like? Your mother?" "Hit the road, four-eyes!”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. (from inside the cover)”
Douglas Coupland (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should have total public funding of federal campaigns. That is the only way to get the dark money out of politics. As president that will be my first piece of legislation to submit because the undue influence of money on our politics is the cancer underlying all other cancers.”
Marianne Williamson (born 1952) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (24 Nov 2019)
“When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time.”
William Rehnquist (1924–2005) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Time magazine (13 June 1988).
“Next to a sum of money down, a grievance is the best thing you can have. A man who can stick to a grievance year after year will always make money out of it at last.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.”
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nevertheless, I still wonder. Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket—not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) first seen 1828 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the US House of Representatives on April 2, 1828, as quoted in The Life of Colonel David Crockett (1884) by Edward Sylvester Ellis.
“Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in generous measure. Now I demand more of you. Men, money and materials cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits.”
Subhas Chandra Bose (1897–1945) first seen 1944 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Burma (July 1944) as quoted in The Great Speeches of Modern India (2011) by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
“Most Americans, in their sweet innocence, think that class has to do with money. But a glance at Donald Trump and Leona Helmsley will indicate that it has very little to do with money. It has to do with taste and style, and it has to do with the development of those features by acts of character. That was one of my points: to try to separate class from mercantilism or commercialism.”
Paul Fussell (1924–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why not? Everything you've got to own costs money. Everything you do costs money. You can't take your wife on a date for free.”
Floyd Mayweather Jr. (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is costing much money here, a thing I regret. But you will get your money's worth. My legs curse you. But my heart says 'Thank you'.”
Maynard Owen Williams (1888–1963) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from a letter to John Oliver la Gorce, the Geographic's assistant editor (1923)
“Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.”
Jesse Ventura (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also was afraid I was a very bad actress, because I'd become famous very fast and was making money for people. When you're making money, they're never going to tell you whether you're good or bad. They don't care. I knew that if I had any talent, this would kill it. I never wanted to be a famous bad actress!”
Salma Hayek (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My father has always used the confidential information extracted from people during auditing sessions to intimidate, threaten and coerce them to do what he wanted, which often meant getting them to give him money. My father routinely used false threats and auditing information particularly about crimes people had committed to extort money from them.”
Ronald DeWolf (1934–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) said by 1937 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I 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. Rockefeller (1839–1937) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1906)
“Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.”
Paulo Coelho (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Americans are mostly engaged in trade and plantations. Their chief object is to make money. And, in truth, money is freedom.”
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is the best counterfeit money.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(speking) "You hear about, you see about it/ it's in your papers/ it's in your daily news/ (get money!) / New York chronicles, every day/ the crime rate, the murder rate/ the money rate, the paper chase, youknowwhatImean?/ New York State of mind, baby, check it out.”
Nas (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The [Europeans] fought against these people because of their role in society, which had to do with usury, money, and so on and so forth ... [Hitler] said he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money. In his view, they were engaged in sabotage, and this is why he hated them. We just want to make this point clear. This was not about Semitism and antisemitism.”
Mahmoud Abbas (born 1935) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a speech at Fatah's Revolutionary Council (late August 2023), as cited in "The Holocaust Wasn't Fueled by Antisemitism, Hitler Hated Jews for Their Money: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas", Haaretz (7 September …
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.”
Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886) first seen 1882 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Veto message of Rivers and Harbor Bill (1882).
“Gary Barlow has done a huge amount for the country, he’s raised money for charity, he’s done very well for Children in Need so I’m not sure, the OBE was in respect of that work and what he’s done but clearly what this scheme was was wrong and it’s right that they’re going to pay back the money.”
David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Good Morning Britain speaking about his view of tax avoidance schemes and if Gary Barlow should give back his OBE following claims that the singer took part in one - Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to Good Mornin…
“Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.”
Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he Art of War is so well study’d, and so equally known in all Places, that ’tis the longest Purse that conquers now, not the longest Sword. If there is any Country whose People are less martial, less enterprising, and less able for the Field; yet, if they have but more Money than their Neighbours, they shall soon be superior to them in Strength, for Money is Power.”
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) said by 1731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When she wakes up in the morning She writes down all her dreams Reads like the Book of Revelations Or the Beano or the unabridged Ulysses Oh, I really wanna know So tell me, Where does all the money go? Where does all the money go? Straight, straight up her nose”
Pete Doherty (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source