If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
—Dorothy ParkerThe populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BCIt 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 BibleNo man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.
—Jonathan Swift, 1702Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.
—Thomas JeffersonNo man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
—Samuel Johnson, 1776Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.
—Norman O. Brown, 1959Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
—Kin HubbardMoney is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.
—Juvenal, 128Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.
—James J. Cramer, 2006Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
—George Herbert, 1640Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.
—Alexandre Dumas, 1857Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
—J. Paul GettyThe character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCIt costs a lot of money to be rich.
—Peter Boyle, 2002Only the little people pay taxes.
—Leona Helmsley, 1989He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
—Roger L’Estrange, 1692