"My mom played a huge role in teaching me the value of money."
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.
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.
The record is clear, printing money doesn't create jobs, it only creates more inflation.
There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.
If we start space colonies in, say, the next 20 years, I would put my money on the asteroids.
Modern man is a debtor, or he is nothing, and money becomes more and more illusory.
The big money in booms is always made first by the public - on paper.
And it remains on paper.
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.