Money Quotes

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Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.

Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Henry David Thoreau

But when investing money, keep, I beg of you, Hastings, strictly to the conservative.

Agatha Christie

I love the Saudis. Many are in this building. They make a billion dollars a day. Whenever they have problems, we send over the ships. We say we're gonna protect. What are we doing? They've got nothing but money.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.

Margaret Thatcher

A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac; a talent for debate, disputant; skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Michel de Montaigne

That's what I always say. Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards.

Michael Jackson

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No, in country money, the country scale of gain,
The requisite lift of spirit has never been found....

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Charles Dickens

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other.

Economy has frequently nothing whatever to do with the amount of money being spent, but with the wisdom used in spending it.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.

Getting along with women,
Knocking around with men,
Having more credit than money,
Thus one goes through the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that... I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.

Vincent van Gogh

Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

Charles Dickens