Frank Rich Quotes

A quarter of a century ago, we were crazy about politics. Now we are crazy about making money …. I am afraid that one day we will become money hooligans without culture.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

The passion for money is never fickle.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.

I don't know if Jesus said it in the Bible, but someone said that 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' and I do think there's a correlation between the ambition that a lot of people have, in terms of financial remuneration, and the loss of core values.

It's a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

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

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

The moral problem of our day is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life…

The goose that lays the golden egg has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege. They control the people through the people's own money.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

… the mere money-making American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune.

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

The love for money is only one among many.

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.