Money and Wealth

Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

A clever theft was praiseworthy amongst the Spartans; and it is equally so amongst Christians, provided it be on a sufficiently large scale.

How many things I can do without!

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.

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

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

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

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.

I’m one of the undeserving poor … up agen middle-class morality all the time … What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Rent is that portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;

Water is best. But gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

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