Max Weber Quotes

I don't return anybody's calls unless it's going to mean extra money for me. And I've completely cut off all relationships with any friends that I had before the show. And I've copped an attitude.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange.

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

People are often reproached because their desires are directed mainly to money and they are fonder of it than of anything else. Yet it is natural and even inevitable …. every other blessing can satisfy only one desire and one need; for instance, food is good only to the hungry, wine only for the healthy, medicine for the sick, a fur coat for winter, women for youth, and so on... Money alone is the absolutely good thing because it meets not merely one need in concreto, but needs generally in abstracto.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.

There's money to be made, and I want mine.

The love for money is only one among many.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

The strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

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

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.