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I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
— Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.
— Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
— Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. 
— Margaret Young
Money is only a human invention.
— Vanna Bonta, Degrees: Thought Capsules
If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.
— Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it in your back pocket.
— Will Rogers
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
— Aphra Behn
Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons
— Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers
Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
— Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
Money follows art. Money wants what it can't buy. Class and talent. And remember while there's a talent for making money, it takes real talent to know how to spend it.
— Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue
What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.
— Mac Miller
Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
— Elizabeth Warren
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People. If the currency issued by the People were no good, then the bonds would be no good, either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious value of gold.
— Thomas A. Edison
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
— S.E. Hinton
The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.
— Dan Ariely, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
— Lemony Snicket
I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
Money is like manure
—  it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
— P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
— George Bernard Shaw
-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium of English bankers made a loan of £1,200,000 to the king. In return they received a royal monopoly on the issuance of banknotes. What this meant in practice was they had the right to advance IOUs for a portion of the money the king now owed them to any inhabitant of the kingdom willing to borrow from them, or willing to deposit their own money in the bank—in effect, to circulate or "monetize" the newly created royal debt. This was a great deal for the bankers (they got to charge the king 8 percent annual interest for the original loan and simultaneously charge interest on the same money to the clients who borrowed it) , but it only worked as long as the original loan remained outstanding. To this day, this loan has never been paid back. It cannot be. If it ever were, the entire monetary system of Great Britain would cease to exist.
— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
— George Best
Our entire system, in an economic sense, is based on restriction. Scarcity and inefficiency are the movers of money; the more there is of any resource the less you can charge for it. The more problems there are, the more opportunities there are to make money.This reality is a social disease, for people can actually gain off the misery of others and the destruction of the environment. Efficiency, abundance and sustainability are enemies of our economic structure, for they are inverse to the mechanics required to perpetuate consumption.This is profoundly critical to understand, for once you put this together you begin to see that the one billion people currently starving on this planet, the endless slums of the poor and all the horrors of a culture due to poverty and pravity are not natural phenomenon due to some natural human order or lack of earthly resources. They are products of the creation, perpetuation and preservation of artificial scarcity and inefficiency.
— Peter Joseph
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
We had everything: love, attention, the best money could buy, but we were taught that we had to first give to then receive.
— Cristiane Serruya, Trust: Betrayed
Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.
— Wendell Berry
I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
Where I had felt a victim, I had become a determiner by recognizing I had choices. When considering a purchase, I stopped saying, "I can't afford it," and started saying, "That's not where I want to spend that amount of money.
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self
Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.
— Baruch Spinoza
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
— John Locke
If we ask, we should also be prepared to give.
— Stephen Richards
Gold is the corpse of value...
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money suffereth long, and is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these is money. I Corinthians xiii (adapted) 
— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
— Robert J. McCracken
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.
— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Duke of Dunstable had one-way pockets. He would walk ten miles in the snow to chisel an orphan out of tuppence.
— P.G. Wodehouse
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.
— Arne Garborg
We no longer live life. We consume it.
— Vicki Robin
Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.
— Lemony Snicket
If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.
— Stephen Richards
If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.
— Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Success In Love
Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.
— Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life
There's money, and then there's class. The two are often separated.
— Kate Jacobs, The Friday Night Knitting Club
Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dexter Is Delicious
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks. 
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
I used to murder people for money, but these days it’s more of a survival technique.
— Jennifer Estep, Widow’s Web
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
— Hunter S. Thompson
When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything. 
— Craig Ferguson
Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?
— Émile Zola, L'Argent
Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.
— John Hersey, Hiroshima
You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.
— Maureen Johnson, The Last Little Blue Envelope
I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.
— Harlan Ellison
If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.
— Stephen Richards
There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.
— Habeeb Akande
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
You can never have too much money.
— Jess C. Scott, Poor Little Rich Dude
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. 
— Stanley Bing
I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.
— Alexander Bell
That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
— Craig Ferguson
Wealth is not about having a lot of money
—  it's about having a lot of options.
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.
— George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.
— Stephen Richards
I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.
— Max Barry, Machine Man
She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled down the center of the shopping complex's ground floor.The scene was a swirl of candy bright lights--the Victoria's Secret fuchsia signboard, signboards which lured one to purchase "confidence," or "sexual appeal," or whatever it was that was being advertised--the fluorescent lights in each store, contrasting with the shiny, black-tiled walls and eye-catching speckled marble tiles on the ground.One could lick the floor--the tiles were spotless, clean like the fake air she was breathing in, like the atoms and cells in her that were decaying in stale neglect.
— Jess C. Scott, Jack in the Box
Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed.
— Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Winners Never Cheat: Everyday Values We Learned as Children But May Have Forgotten
I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know).
— Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
— Søren Kierkegaard, Present Age & Of the Difference Between a Genius & an Apostle
Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.
— Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?"- Eric, club dead.
— Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
Having money is a way of being free of money
— Albert Camus
He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state's means of exchange.
— Robert A. Heinlein, For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs
Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony-the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.
— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
I say money has no value
—  it's just the way you spend it.
If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money
— William Gaddis, JR
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.
— Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
— Jackie Mason
This is so much money that it scares the shit out of me. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know the purpose of the company besides making more money. What's all the money going to be used for?
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.
— Charles Caleb Colton
The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
— Criss Jami, Healology
We are not poor. We just don't have any money!
— Maria Augusta von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
If you align your vibrations and frequencies with those things you desire, you will acquire them.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
— Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
When you put your passion into your desire, when it becomes a fire that threatens to consume you unless you have it, then your will is in the right place.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
She could afford anything, she could give anything, but she could not share a moment of her life with anybody. Shewas a beautiful and a glamorous diamond with an astronomical price tag, but to a crude reality — she was still a stone, a living stone. Nothing else but a stone in an aesthetic sense.
— Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Men
I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an asshole.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
— George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.
— Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty
—  it leaves no right to be generous.
ROMEOThere is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murders in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.Come, cordial and not poison, go with meTo Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Of course (said Oryx), having a money value was no substitute for love. Every child should have love, every person should have it. . . . but love was undependable, it came and then it went, so it was good to have a money value, because then at least those who wanted to make a profit from you would make sure you were fed enough and not damaged too much. Also there were many who had neither love nor a money value, and having one of these things was better than having nothing.
— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules
— Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
I don't like bullshit and pretense.I can't enjoy the joy at church...without some cash in my wallet.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
...that in this town prostitutes may give sewing lessons to ladies of the church, pirates my be consulted for their opinions on seaworth by shipbuilders, Christians and Jews may stroll together on a Sunday, and Indians my play dice games with leatherstockings, but let one silver piece fall in a crack between two members of the same profession and it's bloody war.
— Robert McCammon, The Queen of Bedlam
Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without.
— Amy Dacyczyn, The Complete Tightwad  Gazette
She planted that terror of debt so deeply in her children that even now, in a changed economic pattern where indebtedness is a part of living, I become restless when a bill is two days overdue. Olive never accepted the time-payment plan when it became popular. A thing bought on time was a thing you did not own and for which you were in debt. She saved for things she wanted, and this meant that the neighbours had new gadgets as much as two years before we did.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
...May I have this damaged bunch for two cents? Speak strongly and it shall be yours for two cents. That is a saved penny that you put in the star bank...Suffer the cold for an hour. Put a shawl around you. Sai, I am cold because I am saving to buy land. That hour will save you three cents' worth of coal... When you are alone at night, do not light the lamp. Sit in the darkness and dream awhile. Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank. The money will grow. Someday there will be fifty dollars and somewhere on this long island is a piece of land that you may buy for that money.
— Betty  Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.
— Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.
— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
— Katherine Whitehorn, Observations
YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.
— Vivian Amis, The Essentials of Life
Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.
— Nathan W. Morris
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Money bought freedom
—  without it one could never be free.
Remember your true self. You are more than just flesh and bones; you are unlimited energy and power. Knowing this, you will understand why happiness and prosperity are your birth right.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The basis of Cosmic Ordering is the belief that the universe is not dead matter, but pure energy which responds to our vibrations and to our frequencies.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
Be open to the realization that who you were before and who you are now are two different people, and that what may have made you happy then, may not be the same thing that will make you happy now.
— Stephen Richards
To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.
— Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering Guide
The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back to you, reflecting what it is you sent out.
— Stephen Richards
...If you look at mainstream economics there are three things you will not find in a mainstream economic model - Banks, Debt, and Money. How anybody can think they can analyze capital while leaving out Banks, Debt, and Money is a bit to me like an ornithologist trying to work out how a bird flies whilst ignoring that the bird has wings...
— Steve Keen
Manifesting your desires requires an understanding of the universe’s abundance and inherently giving nature. If you ask from a position of fear or desperation, you are sending out your fear and desperation, and the universe, giving, reflecting, and non-judgmental as it is, will send those right back at you.
— Stephen Richards
Desire is what lends power to thought, it is that element that separates a wish or a day dream into reality, if properly directed.
— Stephen Richards
But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
Show respect to all. If you accept that all is undifferentiated oneness, and that all things are merely different aspects of that one thing (but vibrating at different frequencies), then you must respect yourself and everything and everyone around you.
— Stephen Richards
Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.”“Oh, you found someone else? With less money?
— Vivian Arend, Wolf Line
Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself - clothes upon the body of his son.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy
—  it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
— James Garfield
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away.
— Shay Olivarria
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them
— Walter Kerr
Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
— Caryll Houselander, The Reed of God
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they can get rich making dumb decisions?
— Michael   Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it
— Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters
People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves
— Ben Elton, Meltdown
On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his heart, that Siddhartha began to play the game for money and precious things, which he at other times only joined with a smile and casually as a custom of the childlike people, with an increasing rage and passion. He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes. He played the game due to a pain of his heart, losing and wasting his wretched money in the game brought him an angry joy, in no other way he could demonstrate his disdain for wealth, the merchants' false god, more clearly and more mockingly.
— Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.
— Quentin R. Bufogle
everything either has to do with love or money
— Melissa Jenson
There’s no such thing as free kittens.
— Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now
Americans like to make money
—  Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.
Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What was missing was not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called 'money.' It was akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth lamenting that she couldn't bake a cake because she didn't have any ounces. She had butter, flour, eggs, milk, and sugar, she just didn't have any ounces, any pinches, any pints. The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.
— Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.
— Roman Payne
Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world..money will follow you as a bi-product.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
— Henry A. Wallace
This planet was a marketplace where evil tugged murderously at its chains. Its spies were everywhere. At windy corners where young girls with knowing children’s faces were selling flowers and matches, on the operating tables at the hospitals, in the slums, at railway stations, under viaducts.
— Paul Leppin, Blaugast : A Novel of Decline
And don't tell me debt is not a big deal. Debt will cut off your legs and laugh at you as you grovel in the dirt begging for mercy. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you can't afford it, don't get it. If you're already in debt, get out quickly. If you think you'll never get out, you're right, you won't.
— Osayi Emokpae Lasisi, Impossible Is Stupid
They do say money is the root of all evil."I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.
— Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold" controls the fools.
— Orrin Woodward
Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
The value of money is subjective, depending on age. At the age of one, one multiplies the actual sum by 145,000, making one pound seem like 145,000 pounds to a one-year-old. At seven – Bertie’s age – the multiplier is 24, so that five pounds seems like 120 pounds. At the age of twenty four, five pounds is five pounds; at forty five it is divided by 5, so that it seems like one pound and one pound seems like twenty pence. (All figures courtesy of Scottish Government Advice Leaflet: Handling your Money.)
— Alexander McCall Smith, Bertie's Guide to Life and Mothers
When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again.(Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)
— Sophie Kinsella
There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.
— Roderick Townley, The Great Good Thing
Thou shalt not forget that money is only money and not character or fame.
— Steven J. Lee, The Money Plan: Creating Personal Wealth for a Secure Future
Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see to it that it becomes.
— Stephen Richards
When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.
— Stephen Richards
Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.
— Stephen Richards
People have the false habit of putting an artificial gap between the spiritual and the financial. We cannot accept this habit because life is an integral whole which we should understand deeply.
— Samael Aun Weor
Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.
— Stephen Richards
When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)
— D.H. Lawrence
Max would conclude, "that's who I want to be. The pope. And I'll do the same thing he does. I'll keep all the goddamn money.
— Richard Russo, Empire Falls
I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.
— Solange nicole
The Most Dangerous Book In America
— Michael Mayhem, Mommaboy
Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.
— Stephen Richards
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.
— James Kelman
Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way.
— Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.
— Stephen King, The Stand
No one ought even to desert a woman after throwing her a heap of gold in her distress! He ought to love her forever! You are young, only twenty-one, and kind and upright and fine. You'll ask me how a woman can take money from a man. Oh, God, isn't it natural to share everything with the one we owe all our happiness to? When one has given everything, how can one quibble about a mere portion of it? Money is important only when feeling has ceased. Isn't one bound for life? How can you foresee separation when you think someone loves you? When a man swears eternal love--how can there be any separate concerns in that case?
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.
— Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.
— Ashly Lorenzana
Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.
— Paul Kyriazi, How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle: upgrade your life to that of 007
A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes. 
— Randy Thurman
I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My wardrobe jam-packed! My girl, this is not the way for an old woman to behave - particularly since you never wear anything but black and white, or a little grey, so that you always look as though you were in the same dress. Why fritter away your money so absurdly? (22 August 1919)
— Liane de Pougy
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. 
— Horace
The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period.
— Amy Dacyczyn, The Complete Tightwad  Gazette
It is easier to tell our therapist about our sex life than it is to tell our accountant about our finances.
— Vicki Robin, Your Money or Your Life
Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.
— Ralph Nader, Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.
— Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it! This is truly a golfer’s dream.
— Lorii Myers, Targeting Success, Develop the Right Business Attitude to be Successful in the Workplace
Brent Kessel combines some of the most sophisticated knowledge of financial planning and investment strategies with a sincere and grounded practice in the meditation arts. He has written the deepest and most comprehensive book about money in some time. I applaud him for it. It calls for a serious reading.
— George Kinder, The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
— Walter Sickert
Your money myth affects your gain and luck.In economics, illusion of money affects wealth.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Customer is king. I am his treasurer.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion.
— Mitch McConnell
But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.
— Mary Balogh, Slightly Sinful
But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.
— Meg Wolitzer, The Interestings
Sex is like money
—  only too much is enough.
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
— Louis Agassiz
Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
If just one person has done it, it can be done. by V.L. Marshall
— Verity Louise Marshall, Hard Money: The Naked Truth Behind the Red Light
You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY,ORYou can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION.The choice is always yours...
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Evil comes often to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it. I say this, who am Mathurin Kerbouchard, a homeless wanderer upon the earth's far roads. I speak as one who has known hunger and feast, poverty and riches, the glory of the sword and the humility of the defenseless. Hunger inspires no talent, and carried too far, it deadens the faculties and destroys initiative...
— Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
I have employed someone who earns money for me and does not charge anything .. i call it my corpus or nest egg.It is a beautiful feeling when your corpus earns money and beats your salary
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it.
— Charles Bukowski, Short Stories of Charles Bukowski
If your current skill doesn’t pay your bills, perhaps you should re-tool - and fast at that. The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey otherwise make urgent adjustments if we have gone astray. We can’t isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in. Well, actually, we can, but to our peril.
— Emi Iyalla
We hold further that Communism is not only desirable, but that existing societies, founded on Individualism, are inevitably impelled in the direction of Communism. The development of Individualism during the last three centuries is explained by the efforts of the individual to protect himself from the tyranny of Capital and of the State. For a time he imagined, and those who expressed his thought for him declared, that he could free himself entirely from the State and from society. "By means of money," he said, "I can buy all that I need." But the individual was on a wrong tack, and modern history has taught him to recognize that, without the help of all, he can do nothing, although his strong-boxes are full of gold.
— Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread