He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692Quotes
Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCFormula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyIt costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardOligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonIt is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
—The Bible