Barbara Everitt Bryant Quotes

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

All power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

I can buy any man in the world.

When you have an almost unlimited amount of money, you can pay people to do almost anything.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

Sex and money always prowl in the penumbra of power.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Power without abuse loses its charm.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.