Money and Wealth

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

Possessions possess.

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.

Kingdoms are but cares, State is devoid of stay; Riches are ready snares, And hasten to decay.

 

[ Referring to film producer Samuel Goldwyn :] Well, Mr. Goldwyn, there is not much use in going on. There is this difference between you and me: You are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be avaluable thing, it would not have given them tosuch a scoundrel.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.

Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Money couldn’t buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

When they fire a rocket at Cape Canaveral, I feel as if I own it.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labor required to produce it; price, the quantity of labor which its possessor will take in exchange for it.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

If someone says, 'It's not the money, it's the principle,' it's the money.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich, beyond the dreams of avarice.

You have to choose (as a voter) between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time.