Money

Woody Allen - Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Dan Ariely (in Predictably irrational) - Isn’t cash strange? When we deal with money, we are primed to think about our actions as if we had just signed an honor code. (...) But look at the latitude we have with nonmonetary exchanges. There’s always a convenient rationale. We can take a pencil from work, a Coke from the fridge—we can even backdate our stock options—and find a story to explain it all. We can be dishonest without thinking of ourselves as dishonest. We can steal while our conscience is apparently fast asleep.

Phineas Taylor Barnum - (in Art of Money Getting, 1880) - Money is (...) a very excellent servant but a terrible master.

The Bible (Ecclesiastes 5:10) - He who loves silver cannot be satiated by silver. French (Louis Segond) : Celui qui aime l'argent n'est pas rassasié par l'argent, et celui qui aime les richesses n'en profite pas. C'est encore là une vanité.

Tyler Cowen - Money is ultimately a more egalitarian force than privilege, as everyone’s greenbacks are worth the same.

Rudi Dornbusch - Soft measures do not create hard currencies

Anatole France - La majestueuse égalité des lois interdit aux riches comme aux pauvres de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans la rue et de voler du pain.

Alan Greenspan had a sign in his office at the Fed saying: “The buck starts here.”

Frank McKinney Hubbard - When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.

John Maynard Keynes (1919) - There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

Vitali Klitschko - If you put fresh cucumbers into a barrel of pickles, they will soon turn into pickles.

Attributed to Groucho Marx - While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Attributed to Sir James Mathew - In England justice is open to all - just like the Ritz.

Dorothy Parker - If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.

Michael Sandel - The more things money can buy, the harder it is to be poor.

Robert W. Sarnoff (RCA) - Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Arthur Schopenhauer (in Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit) - Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto. German original: Geld allein ist das absolut Gute: weil es nicht bloß einem Bedürfnis in concreto begegnet, sondern dem Bedürfnis überhaupt, in abstracto. French: l'argent seul est le bon absolu, car il ne pourvoit pas uniquement à un seul besoin «in concreto», mais au besoin en général, «in abstracto».

Jean Sévillia - Quand le pouvoir est dans la rue, la planche à billets est mise à contribution.

Traditional - If one day shit is worth something, the poor will get born without an ass. (Spanish original: El día que la mierda tenga algún valor, los pobres nacerán sin culo.)

Traditional - If money doesn't grow on trees. then why do banks have branches?

Voltaire (Lettre à Frédéric II de Prusse, janvier 1737) - Ceux qui crient contre ce qu'on appelle le luxe ne sont guère que des pauvres de mauvaise humeur.

Yiddish proverb - Poverty is no disgrace - which is the only good thing you can say about it.

Yiddish proverb - God loves the poor and helps the rich.

Yiddish proverb - It’s not that money makes everything good; it’s that no money makes everything bad.

Henny Youngman - What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.