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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Viereck interview (1929)
- America
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George Eliot1819–1880Middlemarch (1871–1872), Book II: Old and Young, Chapter XVIIIn context
- Charity
The soul is subject to dollars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 6
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May-Day and Other Pieces (1867), Fragment
- Morality
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Poems (1847), Ode: Inscribed to W. H. Channing, st. 7
Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.
Epicurus342–270 BCThe Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments (1993) edited by Eugene Michael O’Connor, p. 99
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 7 (Bartlett’s, 9th ed. 1892)
- Friendship
’Tis written, gifts persuade
The gods in heaven; and gold is stronger made
Than words innumerable to bend men’s ways.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by MedeaIn context
- Power
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Poets”
- Poetry
The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940“Amory Blaine” in This Side of Paradise (1920) Bk. 2, Ch. 5
- Work
Her voice is full of money
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIn context
- Women
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy⁠—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Responsibility
I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself⁠—in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.
Henry Ford1863–1947
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
Anatole France1844–1924L’Île des Pingouins [Penguin Island] (1908), Book VI: Les Temps Modernes, Ch. II: Pyrot
- Democracy