Quotes about money
243 quotes from 153 people
Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946“Clissold” (1927); appeared in the Nation and Athenaeum (1927)When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 31
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968“Beyond Vietnam”, Riverside Church, New York (4 April 1967)
Walter Savage Landor1775–1864Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Speech at New Haven, Connecticut (6 March 1860)
David Lloyd George1863–1945In Lord Riddell’s Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference and After, 1918-1923 (1933)
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Speech for the “Make Poverty History” campaign. Trafalgar Square, London (3 February 2005).Possession make you rich? I don’t have that type of richness. My richness is Life, forever.
Bob Marley1945–1981Interview for the Australian TV programme 60 Minutes (1979)Money can’t buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
Karl Marx1818–1883Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867), Vol. I, Ch. 3aMoney degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities.
Karl Marx1818–1883On the Jewish Question (1843)Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
