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If the love of money is the root of all evil, the need of money is most certainly the root of all despair.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Half-Breed (p. 160)
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh (August 12, 1720)
- Clever Jabs
They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part I, Ch. 1
- Business
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (16 February 1890)
- Economics
The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power…
Thomas Hobbes1588–1679Leviathan (1651), The First Part, Chapter 10, p. 42In context
- Power
Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Will Rogers Book (1972)
- Government
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963Les Enfants Terribles translation by Rosamond Lehmann (1929)
Money is always to be found when men are to be sent to the frontiers to be destroyed: when the object is to preserve them, it is no longer so.
Voltaire1694–1778“Charity” (1770)
- War & Peace
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.
John D. Rockefeller1839–1937Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1906)
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
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Fear
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Poets”
- Poetry
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.
Steve Jobs1955–2011On the success of Bill Gates and Microsoft, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993)
- Success
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (12 December 1890)
- Economics