The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.
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 poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.
“Always comes down to money, huh?”
Makes the damn world go round.
Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it.
I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.
Wealth is the hidden side of speed and speed the hidden side of wealth.
The main problem in the world is that power, and wealth is in the hands of a few elite.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.
Wealth is not necessarily accumulated at the expense of public interest and the needy.
It takes brains to make money, but any dam fool can inherit. P.S.: I never inherited any money.
Wealth and all its good things becomes with us at last habit. And habit is life.
We need a steady stream of cash. The American people have been uncommonly generous.