Quotes About Money

The write must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money

From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say individuality vanishes.

The medieval proverb nulle terre sans seigneur [There is no land without its lord. — Ed.] is thereby replaced by that other proverb, l'argent n'a pas de maître [Money knows no master. — Ed.], wherein is expressed the complete domination of dead matter over man.

If money, according to Augier, comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.

y, en términos generales, advertiréis, frente a un enorme aumento de valor no sólo de las mercancías, sino también en general de las operaciones en dinero, una tendencia a la disminución progresiva de los medios de pago.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

They could flee to Paris. To America. He had the money; she'd want for nothing. He'd take the mother, if she insisted. The mother, the maid, her pet spaniel, if she had one. He'd go anywhere, dare anything, to have her. And he knew nothing about her. Was love insanity, or insanity love?

Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

Wit will never make a man rich, but there are places where riches will always make a wit.

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.