“The first thing [in credit] is character … before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it.… A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom. I think that is the fundamental basis of business.”

“[Credit] is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else.”

J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Money and muscle, that’s what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won’t do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won’t enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.”

Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author

“Gold is money. Everything else is credit.”

J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector

“I never said money is freedom! I said money buys freedom. BUYS! What does that mean, money is freedom? This is ridiculous: Money is freedom. It means nothing. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. You are trying to make me sound like an American average citizen.”

Klaus Kinski (1926–1991) German actor

“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“Maybe money can't buy love - but it can get you practically everything else.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”
Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque ut pecuniam accepero, Graecos primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, and theologian

“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 (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler