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Money Quotes



"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."


"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."


"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."


"Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world."


"Love is blind. Love of money is blind. Greed and money make people forfeit the quiddity of life, banish them from what is essential and alienate them from themselves. They lose their identity and become drifting exiles. ['Money rocking and rolling']"



"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."


"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."


"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."



"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."


"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."


"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."


"The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money."


"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."


"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."


"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."



"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."



"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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