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.
I loved the theaters, and even though I was hungry, I never spent money for food.
Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.
Jews talk a lot about God. But actually their god, just like Marx said, is money. Cash!
“The poor and the middle class work for money.” “The rich have money work for them.”
And when it comes to money, high emotions tend to lower financial intelligence.
If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be “focused,” not “balanced.”