When it comes to money, the only skill most people know is to work hard.
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 use of money results in social stratification and elitism based primarily on economic disparity.
There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement, and more caused by the need for money.
I never wanted two things: money or to live outside Soviet Union.
When you have a big sister like me, your problem will never be cash but how to spend your money.
Money’s what makes the world go round, having a business niche is who I am, and it’s crucial.
That was a really bad week: [I] had to spend a lot of money and my productivity was totally ruined.
Your good name and reputation are bigger than the job, the deal, the promotion and the money.
They understand that the more people who come to the park, the more money they are likely to get.
A lot of the people who are making money are not the people actually in the midst of it.