
„How did money ever happen? What's it mean? What's it for?“
— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
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— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
Jim Dandy : Fat Man in a Famine (1947)
— Fabio Lanzoni Italian model, actor and author 1961
Fabio: confessions of the original male supermodel https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/jul/15/fabio-confessions-original-male-supermodel (July 15, 2015)
— Lil Peep American rapper 1996 - 2017
Song Benz Truck (Гелик), Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1
— Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935
— Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943
As quoted in "A Visit to Nikola Tesla" by Dragislav L. Petković in Politika (April 1927); also in Tesla, Master of Lightning (1999) by Margaret Cheney, Robert Uth, and Jim Glenn, p. 82
— Chris Hedges American journalist 1956
"The Enemy Within" (2019)
— Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist 1713 - 1784
Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws (1774)
Context: In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (14 October 1983) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/105454
Second term as Prime Minister
Context: Let us never forget this fundamental truth: the State has no source of money other than money which people earn themselves. If the State wishes to spend more it can do so only by borrowing your savings or by taxing you more. It is no good thinking that someone else will pay – that ‘someone else’ is you. There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.
— J. Paul Getty American industrialist 1892 - 1977
As quoted by Robert Lenzner in his book, The Great Getty (1985)
— J. Paul Getty American industrialist 1892 - 1977
J. Paul Getty cited in: Alison Branagan (2009) Making Sense of Business: A No-Nonsense Guide to Business Skills. p. 136
— Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964
— Robert Bosch German industrialist, inventor, engineer 1861 - 1942
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Variant: I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
— Jonathan Sacks British rabbi 1948
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— Heydar Aliyev Soviet and Azerbaijani politician 1923 - 2003
Answering the question of Jeffrey Goldberg "What sort of corruption do you see in America?" October 4, 1998, The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/04/magazine/the-crude-face-of-global-capitalism.html?pagewanted=all.
— Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Brazilian politician, 35th president of Brazil 1945
Lula da Silva (1975), Cited in: Emir Sader, Ken Silverstein (1991) Without Fear of Being Happy. p. 41
After being advised to stay in the United States when his brother was arrested in Brazil as a communist subversive.
— Morgan Freeman American actor, film director, and narrator 1937
Good luck!
Source: [Jobson, Richard, July 14, 2000, Morgan Freeman, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/14/morganfreeman, The Guardian, London, December 4, 2017]
— Masashi Kishimoto, book Naruto
Source: Naruto, Vol. 18: Tsunade's Choice