Money and Wealth

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.

O polish’d perturbation! golden care! That keep’st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night!

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out.

Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want.

Hollywood money isn’t money. It’s congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Mammon led them on,

I also believe that capitalism or, we should say, the system of free enterprise will prove unable to check unemployment, which will become increasingly chronic because of technological progress, and unable to maintain a healthy balance between production and the purchasing power of the people.

I'm going to Iowa to collect an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to pick up an honour from the French government. I'd give it all up for one erection.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it’s a matter of inspiration.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

An itching palm.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.