“When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. Money was as constant as human nature.”

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 11 (pp. 148-149)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 10, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When in doubt, follow the money trail. People could lie, motives could be disguised, even acts could be misunderstood. …" by Charles Sheffield?
Charles Sheffield photo
Charles Sheffield 41
British scientist, American science fiction writer 1935–2002

Related quotes

Edward St. Aubyn photo
Virginia Woolf photo
Michael Swanwick photo
James MacDonald photo

“Even if God could lie, He would have no motivation. He can gain nothing by lying. Everything He wants to have happen happens.”

James MacDonald (1960) American pastor

Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 51

Clint Eastwood photo

“With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

On the $31 million cost of making a film
"Figures and quotes", Bristol Evening Post (June 19, 2007), p. 36.

George W. Bush photo

“If money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down.”

George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States

Summing up the risk to the global economy if Congressional leaders failed to approve Treasury Secretary Paulson's $700 billion financial bailout plan, at a bipartisan meeting hosted by the White House (September 26, 2008); http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/united_states/article4834487.ece.
2000s, 2008

“Paul had the kind of money that could stop up justice.”

John Avanzini (1936) American televangelist, bible teacher, author

Believer's Voice of Victory, TBN, 20 January 1991

David Harvey photo

“Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.”

David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist

Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 9, Money, Credit And Finance, p. 253

Rex Stout photo

“There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.”

Rex Stout (1886–1975) American writer

Rex Stout, on why he turned from writing serious fiction to detective stories
The New York Times, "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout"

Related topics