Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays... We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

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.

A trillion here, a trillion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.

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.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

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

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

Vesco was always on the trail in search of money.

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.

The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

Money. All these guys care about is money. They want money. How much money have we given them?

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…

You spend a billion here and a billion there. Sooner of later it adds up to real money.

Once a man has begun to accumulate money, it is unnatural to stop. He actually gets in a state where he wants more and more..

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

The love for money is only one among many.

Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything.

You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.