Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech at Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island (23 August 1902), Presidential Addresses and State Papers (1910), p. 103.
Milton Friedman1912–2006The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937Interview with William Hoster, quoted in God’s Gold (1932) by John T. Flynn
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957Listen, Little Man! (1948)
George Sorosborn 1930Soros on Soros (1995)
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946“Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, The Nation and Athenaeum (October 1930)
Walter Savage Landor1775–1864Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”- John Maynard Keynes1883–1946A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities.
Karl Marx1818–1883On the Jewish Question (1843)MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
L. Ron Hubbard1911–1986“Principles of Money Management” (March 9, 1972).Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
Yuval Noah Harariborn 1976Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), Chapter 10: “The Scent of Money”I care not how affluent some may be, provided that none be miserable in consequence of it.
Thomas Paine1737–1809Agrarian Justice (1797)
Will Rogers1879–1935Daily Telegram #1019, Thoughts Of Will Rogers On The Late Slumps In Stocks (31 October 1929)
Gore Vidal1925–2012Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
David Graeber1961–2020Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Twelve, “1971–The Beginning…”, p. 391