# Quotes about money - Quotes: 24 - Authors: 15 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money ## Quotes > The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. Reflections on the Revolution in France Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > When nobody gets rich, they call that a recession. [Larry Niven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven.md) · [Flatlander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander.md) · p. 316 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/when-nobody-gets.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > One reason for the bustle was that over large parts of the continent other people preferred to make money without working at all, and since the Disc had yet to develop a music recording industry they were forced to fall back on older, more traditional forms of banditry. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [Equal Rites](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/equal-rites.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/equal-rites/one-reason-for.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Wizards parted with money slightly less readily than tigers parted with their teeth. [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [Equal Rites](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/equal-rites.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/equal-rites/wizards-parted-with.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Publishers, with their usual bravery, dumbed down their books in order to make money at the expense of leaving American children undereducated or, worse, miseducated. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 306 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/publishers-with-their.md) Topics: [knowledge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/knowledge.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Lecturing helps only the students. Research, on the other hand, means government grants, and a portion of the grants is invariably marked for “overhead,” which goes to the school. What it amounts to is that the school chooses research over lecturing every time—money for itself over education for its students. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 164 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/lecturing-helps-only.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Hollywood is notorious for “creative bookkeeping.” They can make many, many millions out of a movie but all of it is skimmed off to actors and direction and what is left, the “net profit,” out of which the writers are paid a percentage, usually turns out to be a “net loss.” [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [I, Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov.md) · p. 502 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/i-asimov/hollywood-is-notorious.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don't have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money? Tropic of Capricorn · p. 108 Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Sometimes you fantasize that people who are really up-there and rich and living it up have something you don't have, that their things must be better than your things because they have more money than you. But they drink the same Cokes and eat the same hot dogs and wear the same ILGWU clothes and see the same TV shows and the same movies. Rich people can't see a sillier version of w:Truth or Consequences, or a scarier version of w:The Exorcist. You can get just as revolted as they can—you can have the same nightmares. All of this is really American. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Business art is the step that comes after Art. I started as a commercial artist, and I want to finish as a business artist. After I did the thing called 'art' or whatever it's called, I went into business art. I wanted to be an Art Businessman or a Business Artist. Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. During the hippies era people put down the idea of business – they'd say 'Money is bad', and 'Working is bad', but making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol · p. 92 Topics: [art](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/art.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > The courtesans, as Vandeuvres used to say, avenged public morality by emptying his money bags. Nana Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > The night threatened to end in the unloveliest way. In a corner by themselves, Maria Blond and Léa de Horn had begun squabbling at close quarters, the former accusing the latter of consorting with people of insufficient wealth. Nana Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Wealth — Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. [H.L. Mencken](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken.md) · [A Mencken Chrestomathy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hl-mencken/a-mencken-chrestomathy/wealth-any-income.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Walden · p. 370 Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Civil Disobedience Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > But the rich man — not to make any invidious comparison — is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it. It puts to rest many questions which he would otherwise be taxed to answer; while the only new question which it puts is the hard but superfluous one, how to spend it. Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet. The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased. The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor. Civil Disobedience Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. Very well then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time. An organization of society which would abolish the preconditions for huckstering, and therefore the possibility of huckstering, would make the Jew impossible. His religious consciousness would be dissipated like a thin haze in the real, vital air of society. On the other hand, if the Jew recognizes that this practical nature of his is futile and works to abolish it, he extricates himself from his previous development and works for human emancipation as such and turns against the supreme practical expression of human self-estrangement. [Karl Marx](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karl-marx.md) · [On the Jewish Question](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karl-marx/on-the-jewish-question.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karl-marx/on-the-jewish-question/let-us-consider.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Roughing It](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/roughing-it.md) · p. 360 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/roughing-it/a-crowded-police.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Virtue never has been as respectable as money. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [The Innocents Abroad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-innocents-abroad.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-innocents-abroad/virtue-never-has.md) Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md) · [Nicomachean Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/the-life-of-money-making.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > I have also reviewed my own financial obligations, which have puffed up recently like a hammered thumb. [Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md) · [Mere Anarchy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/mere-anarchy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/mere-anarchy/i-have-also.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. [Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md) · [Without Feathers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers/money-is-better.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [Major Barbara](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/major-barbara.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/major-barbara/undershaft-my-religion.md) Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md) > France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/france-less-favoured.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md)