David Ricardo Quotes

After all, money is but the agent of the transfer of values

There's nothing as real as money.

Without money nothing gets done.

Money is the medium of exchange, and it's how you make things happen. To say you hate it is some farfetched, idealistic crap.

Money is money.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

It's all about the money.

Money: power at its most liquid.

A cent is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. Its value is in the necessities of the animal man. It is so much warmth, so much bread, so much water, so much land.

Now, Gold and Silver contribute very little in their own nature to our Lives, for which all Earthly Things seem to have been created. Yet Men, as if they would make Nature asham'd of this, have agreed to make those Metals of equal vaue to all other things, to make 'em the Price and Measrue of all, and the Instruments of changing and exchanging whatever can be found good in this World.

Money is property; it is not speech.

Even money has a price.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Wealth flows from energy and ideas.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

The substitute for knowledge is money.

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

All money is a matter of belief.

Money is a kind of poetry.

You must spend money to make money.

Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.

Assets are cold.

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

If you are money, then, when you die, you will be spent.