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“Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.”
L. Neil Smith (1946–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The final step is when the new socialist society reaches the stage where profit and money disappear. It is through transforming society into a fully productive society, and through reaching in production a level where the material needs of the members of society are satisfied. On that final stage, profit will automatically disappear and there will be no need for money.”
Muammar Gaddafi (1942–2011) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Green Book (1975)
“They may talk as they please about what they call pelf They may sneer as they like about eating and drinking But help it I cannot, I cannot help thinking, How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! How pleasant it is to have money.”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They may talk as they please about what they call pelf, And how one ought never to think of one's self, And how pleasures of thought surpass eating and drinking— My pleasure of thought is the pleasure of thinking How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! How pleasant it is to have money.”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Work does not cause money; getting paid causes money.”
John Barnes (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.”
Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.”
Benjamin Graham (1894–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The trouble about Europe is what I call the Olive Line, the line below which people grow olives. North of the Olive Line people pay their taxes and spend public money very cautiously. South of it they fail to pay their taxes at all, but spend a lot of public money.”
Denis Healey (1917–2015) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From an interview with Michael Crick, as cited in "Healey: case for leaving Europe stronger than staying", Channel 4 News (9 May 2013)
“You will have money and all that money can buy.”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since the war we had produced a quarter more goods and services—and paid ourselves 80 per cent more money for doing it. That is why there is too much demand—too much spending power—and you will not stop that by fixing prices. What we have got to do is to stop pumping money in, or only pump it in at the same rate as the extra production we succeed in turning out.”
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast (25 February 1956), quoted in 'Mr. Macmillan's Appeal', The Times (27 February 1956), p. 3
“5091. 'Tis Money, that begets Money.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
Rick Santorum (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But I'd felt as if I'd pissed my life away in the same way that you can piss money away. I'd had a life, full of kids and wives and jobs and all the usual stuff, and I'd somehow managed to mislay it. No, you see, that's not right. I knew where my life was, just as you know where the money goes when you piss it away. I hadn't mislaid it at all. I'd spent it.”
Nick Hornby (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Next year we shall be living in a country That brought its soldiers home for lack of money. The statues will be standing in the same Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same. Our children will not know it’s a different country. All we can hope to leave them now is money.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"… If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.”
Philippe Kahn (born 1952) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement speech for UCSC students 1996 | UCSC Press Release.
“One of the wisest things anybody ever said to me was that if all you ever care about is money, money is all that will ever care for you.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He now suspected that every human being who knew how high-frequency traders made money was making too much money doing it to stop and explain what was going on.”
Michael Lewis (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”
Lewis H. Lapham (1935–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is a symbol of what others in your society owe you, or your claim on particular amounts of the society's resources. How money and other financial claims... are created, sold and bought is... . ...[C]laims ...a lot of economics is (or should be) about those.”
Ha-Joon Chang (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We never really got married. When we both wanted to we never had the money, somehow. And when we had the money, there was always some kind of quarrel. After a couple of years everybody thought we were married anyway.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly, down in Texas. I mean, printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous—or treasonous in my opinion.”
Rick Perry (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rather than corruption or extortion, we should talk about “environmental bribery”, i.e. an objective situation in which those who have to give money no longer even wait to be asked; they know that in that particular environment it is customary to give bribes or protection money, and so they comply.”
Antonio Di Pietro (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free”
Tom Hodgkinson (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must not only guard against the possession of money, but also must expel from our souls the desire for it. For we should not so much avoid the results of covetousness, as cut off by the roots all disposition towards it. For it will do no good not to possess money, if there exists in us the desire for getting it.”
John Cassian (360–435) said by 435 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If all that I was actually going to be allowed to have by the media was money, loads of money, then fuck it … What I actually wanted was something quiet and simple: a writer's community and respect.”
Lana Del Rey (born 1985) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Guardian (12 June 2014)
“There isn't one role I'd like to play. There are many and there are none. I've always admitted to being a prostitute. I sell myself for money. I don't have to see myelf up on the screen as Napoleon to feel satisfied about a movie. If you pay me a lot of money, I'll be in your film.”
Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the core values of libertarianism is the right of people to keep all the fruits of their labor. No taxes are fair. All taxes are, at their root, immoral because they involve the use of force to take money from people, money that rightfully belongs to them, and give it to others. That is why libertarians would fund most government services with voluntary user fees.”
R. Lee Wrights (1958–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money does not only help the exchange of goods and services but can also hinder the exchange of goods and services by being kept in the hands of those who have more than they need. Thus it creates a private toll gate where those who have less than they need pay a fee to those who more money than they need.”
Margrit Kennedy (1939–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be aware that money is one of the central issues to many people's lives. Therefore, it is linked strongly with people's perception of themselves and the world. Generosity or greed, openness or isolation, warmth or coldness - how people behave in other areas will be reflected in their attitude towards money.”
Margrit Kennedy (1939–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We don't claim that there is plenty of money. Greek people are not asking for money. They are asking for work and the ability to make a living.”
Alexis Tsipras (born 1974) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Debt debate veers with Greek polls close" (UPI), 2 June 2012.
“Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America.”
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't think distributors are cheating or evil or anything like that, I just think that the business model is unsustainable so they truly don't have money. There's just not much money in this particular model.”
Nina Paley (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Have you ever wondered why the Wikimedia Foundation wants so much money? It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. You can literally fit a copy of the entire text on your phone! So, what’s the money for? Inquiring minds want to know…”
Elon Musk (born 1971) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: X, (October 22, 2023); as quoted by Matthew Gault, “Elon Musk Still Doesn’t Understand How Wikipedia Works”, Vice, (October 23, 2023)
“The existence of money is hardly ever questioned or examined, but let’s consider our use of money.... There are many disadvantages to using this old method of exchange for goods and services. We will consider just a few here and let you add to this list on your own.”
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“aii, see Plenty money, means plenty honey na so dem say money is the root of all evil but nowadays na di fruit of the tree weh deh bless people”
Slim Burna (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is making money but I am earning love. His money will get spent, but the respect and love that I get will remain for him when I leave. I only hope he keeps it up.Somewhere he will take care of my respect and love.”
Sunil Dutt (1929–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One doesn't look at the quality of work, they see how much it fetches, how it earns. That's a sad thing. Money is not the criteria of art. Art or love is not a question of money. One should perceive these things at a different level.”
S. H. Raza (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The value of a yellow metal, originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.”
Dennis Holme Robertson (1890–1963) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: D.H. Robertson, quotes in: Oscar Sachse (1933) The Socialisation of Banking. p. 22; About gold.
“Since money belongs to the community … it would seem that the community may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property.”
Nicole Oresme (1320–1382) said by 1382 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We, as Africans, must stop taking our money abroad. We should invest it here to build our countries and the continent. As for me, I don’t take my money out of Africa.”
Aliko Dangote (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People say money is not the key to happiness, but I've always figured if you have enough money you can get a key made.”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Seriously Funny (2009), by G. Nachman, p. 606
“Tug was fascinated, and not by the money involved. Like many mathematicians, Mesoglea considered money to be one boring, merely bookkeeping subset of the vast mental universe of general computation.”
Rudy Rucker (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The notion that individual acts of exchange were at the root of trade, money, and even of market institutions, is hardly tenable. Foreign trade, as a rule, preceded domestic trade, the exchange use of money originated in the foreign trade sphere, and organized markets were developed first in external trade; in all three cases, action was more of the collective than of the individual kind.”
Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We, as lawyers, as men of business, as men of experience, know perfectly well what evils necessarily result from handing over a great family estate to a mortgagee in possession, whose only chance of getting his money is to sacrifice the interests of everybody to money-getting.”
Nathaniel Lindley, Baron Lindley (1828–1921) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In re Marquis of Ailesbury's Settled Estates (1891), L. J. Rep. 61 C. D. 123.
“If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.”
Apollonius of Tyana (15–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the last decade or two there has grown up in this country, principally under the leadership of Professor Milton Friedman, a school calling itself the Monetarists. The leaders sometimes sum up their doctrine in the phrase: "Money matters," and even sometimes in the phrase: "Money matters most.”
Henry Hazlitt (1894–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.”
Lionel Messi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money is here called the a medium and not, as customary, a unit of account because, clearly, money itself is not a unit, but the good whose unit is used as the unit of account.”
Jürg Niehans (1919–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source