Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
Quotes about money page 7
“Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.”
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters
Variant: It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
Source: Invisible Monsters
Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Variant: Real Reason:
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.
“Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer
Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
Henry David Thoreau book Life Without Principle
Life Without Principle (1863)
Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Vol. 2, Ch. 26, § 320
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”
Bob Hope (1903–2003) American comedian, actor, singer and dancer
Source: Lock and Key
Source: Bel-Ami
“Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
"Interview With Jesus"
A Place for My Stuff (1981)
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Ernest Thompson Seton (1860–1946) British/ American author, artist, and a founder of the scouting movement
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer
Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”
Agatha Christie book The Man in the Brown Suit
Source: The Man in the Brown Suit
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
"September,", p. 413
1970s, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1973)
Context: This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Context: If the current polls are reliable... Nixon will be re-elected by a huge majority of Americans who feel he is not only more honest and more trustworthy than George McGovern, but also more likely to end the war in Vietnam. The polls also indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the Youth Vote. And that he might carry all fifty states... This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
“To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Americanah
Source: Americanah
“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”
Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer
Source: The Perfect Christmas
Grant Morrison (1960) writer
Source: Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Variant: They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Source: The Great Gatsby
“Time is money, but also money is money.”
William Gibson book Pattern Recognition
Source: Pattern Recognition
“Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.”
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Source: The Bob Dylan Scrapbook: 1956-1966
“People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.”
Kathy Lette (1958) Australian author
“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet”
Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.”
Marian Wright Edelman (1939) American children's rights activist
“Making money is art. And working is art. And good business is the best art.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), p. 92
Context: Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Speech at the University of Las Villas (1959)
Source: Che Guevara Talks to Young People
Context: The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study. Education should be the daily bread of the people of Cuba.
“It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.”
Ian Rankin book Knots and Crosses
Source: Knots and Crosses
“Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
Source: Plum Lovin'
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: Your money saved us for three days. It's not often that money saves a person's life.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 167 <!-- p. 148 -->
“I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake.”
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Hidden Agendas
“Balancing your money is the key to having enough.”
Elizabeth Warren (1949) 28th United States Senator from Massachusetts
“You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”
Dave Ramsey (1960) American financial advisor
“If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
“He sounded like a man who had slept well and didn't owe too much money.”
Raymond Chandler book The Big Sleep
Source: The Big Sleep