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 poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
I'm here to make money and get laid,
Yeah I'm a star but I'll fade.
People say, "I want to get laid a lot and make lots of money." That's not the right order.
"You can't buy love with money." Only a poor person says that.
Recognition of one’s fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.
In other words, a majority of people let their lack of money stop them from making a deal.