Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
Money Quotes
Karl Marx and Robert Kiyosaki are tied for the most entries here, which is about as wide a spread of opinion as one page can hold. The sourced quotes lean towards the sceptics. Thoreau’s journal for 1838 says the richest man is the one whose pleasures are the cheapest. Chesterton, in his novel The Flying Inn (1914), is less polite about the rich.
“The lack of money is the root of all evil” is credited to Mark Twain, and it does appear in a posthumous piece of his from 1905. It had already been in print, though. Wikiquote finds it in 1872, set in quotation marks as if readers would know it, and a similar remark about gold in a magazine from 1859.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Power can command wealth but wealth can’t always command power.
Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
"At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money,"
These hands were almost crippled digging coal so that rich men in Boston might grow even richer.
Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.
Money is easier to manipulate than men, but then it manipulates them for you.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.