Money and Wealth

Remember that time is money.

They [the poor] have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Her voice is full of money.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

One of the low on whom assurance sits

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

Poor little rich girl.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat,

How pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!

The sinews of war, unlimited money.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

There are only two families in the world … the haves and the have-nots.

In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.

Year after year they voted cent per cent

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

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?

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.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.