Money and Wealth

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.

Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties. . . . The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody’s business.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory . . . was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward . . . through the ranks.

Usura slayeth the child in the wombIt stayeth the young man’s courtingIt hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom CONTRA NATURAM

Mankind’s greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.

Pat [his wife] doesn’t have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.

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.

Unearned increment of value.

[ Rufus T. Firefly, played by Groucho Marx, speaking :] Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.

[ Groucho Marx speaking after a woman says, “I don’t like this innuendo” :] That’s what I always say. Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo.

[ Hammer, played by Groucho Marx, speaking :] Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. And now I’ve got a nickel in my pocket.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I want a man whose kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

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

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

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

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.