Quotes about money

„If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.“

—  Ogden Nash American poet 1902 - 1971

"More About People"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)
Source: Hard Lines

„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 American politician 1958

Santorum targets blacks in entitlement reform
2012-01-02
Lucy
Madison
Political Hotsheet
CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57350990-503544/santorum-targets-blacks-in-entitlement-reform/
2012-01-19

„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 American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930

Source: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

„When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are. It's life.“

—  Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955

„Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.“

—  Will Rogers American humorist and entertainer 1879 - 1935

„But remember this, Japanese boy… airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki, The Wind Rises

Source: The Wind Rises

„No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough.“

—  LeBron James American basketball player 1984

LeBron James Responds to Racial Vandalism: ‘Being Black in America Is Tough’, NY Times, June 1, 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/sports/lebron-racist-graffiti-home.html?_r=0,

„If, by the virtue of charity or the circumstance of desperation, you ever chance to spend a little time around a Substance-recovery halfway facility like Enfield MA’s state-funded Ennet House, you will acquire many exotic new facts…That certain persons simply will not like you no matter what you do. That sleeping can be a form of emotional escape and can with sustained effort be abused. That purposeful sleep-deprivation can also be an abusable escape. That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it. That loneliness is not a function of solitude. That logical validity is not a guarantee of truth. That it takes effort to pay attention to any one stimulus for more than a few seconds. That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them. That if enough people in a silent room are drinking coffee it is possible to make out the sound of steam coming off the coffee. That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating intently on anything is very hard work. That 99% of compulsive thinkers’ thinking is about themselves; that 99% of this self-directed thinking consists of imagining and then getting ready for things that are going to happen to them; and then, weirdly, that if they stop to think about it, that 100% of the things they spend 99% of their time and energy imagining and trying to prepare for all the contingencies and consequences of are never good. In short that 99% of the head’s thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself. That it is possible to make rather tasty poached eggs in a microwave oven. That some people’s moms never taught them to cover up or turn away when they sneeze. That the people to be the most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened. That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable. That other people can often see things about you that you yourself cannot see, even if those people are stupid. That having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear. That trying to dance sober is a whole different kettle of fish. That different people have radically different ideas of basic personal hygiene. That, perversely, it is often more fun to want something than to have it. That if you do something nice for somebody in secret, anonymously, without letting the person you did it for know it was you or anybody else know what it was you did or in any way or form trying to get credit for it, it’s almost its own form of intoxicating buzz. That anonymous generosity, too, can be abused. That it is permissible to want. That everybody is identical in their unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn’t necessarily perverse. That there might not be angels, but there are people who might as well be angels.“

—  David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest (1996)

„Money buys you the freedom to live your life the way you want.“

—  Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, director, producer and musician 1964

„[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.“

—  Johnny Depp American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

„Why do you sow where the field is eager to destroy the fruit? Where there are medicines of sterility? Where there is murder before birth? You do not even let a harlot remain a harlot, but you make her a murderess as well. Do you see that from drunkenness comes fornication, from fornication adultery, from adultery murder? Indeed, it is something worse than murder and I do not know what to call it; for she does not kill what is formed but prevents its formation. What then? Do you contemn the gift of God, and fight with His laws? What is a curse, do you seek as though it were a blessing? Do you make the anteroom of birth the anteroom of slaughter? Do you teach the woman who is given to you for the procreation of offspring to perpetrate killing? That she may always be beautiful and lovable to her lovers, and that she may rake in more money, she does not refuse to do this, heaping fire on your head; and even if the crime is hers, you are the cause. Hence also arise idolatries. To look pretty many of these women use incantations, libations, philtres, potions, and innumerable other things. Yet after such turpitude, after murder, after idolatry, the matter still seems indifferent to many men–even to many men having wives. In this indifference of the married men there is greater evil filth; for then poisons are prepared, not against the womb of a prostitute, but against your injured wife. Against her are these innumerable tricks, invocations of demons, incantations of the dead, daily wars, ceaseless battles, and unremitting contentions.“

—  John Chrysostom important Early Church Father 349 - 407

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 24 on the Epistle to the Romans [PG 60:626-27] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/10/contraception-early-church-teaching-william-klimon.html

„God money I'll do anything for you.
God money just tell me what you want me to.
God money nail me up against the wall.
God money don't want everything he wants it all.“

—  Trent Reznor American musician 1965

Head Like a Hole, from Pretty Hate Machine (1990).
Song lyrics

„Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.“

—  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

„Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!“

—  George Lincoln Rockwell American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party 1918 - 1967

Interview with Alex Haley

„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)

„Money and friendship bribe justice.
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.“

—  John Ray British botanist 1627 - 1705

Source: English Proverbs (1670), p. 94

„With this film I have made more money than any of my other films. It was a high-wire act.“

—  Kamal Haasan Indian actor 1954

On the success of his innovative Tamil film Apoorva Sahodarakal (Unique brothers) after a series of flops,
In Comeback king (31May 1989) http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/kamalhasans-latest-performance-dwarfs-his-earlier-hits/1/323484.html

„I'm married to my money because it never cheats on me“

—  Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

„Whatever you do, make sure that you have those things that money can't buy“

—  Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996