Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

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

The Practice of most Trading Nations confirms, that Paper is more Qualified for the Use of Money, than Silver; providing it have a Value

The mints of Grenada no longer coin gold, but steel.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

Money is the general medium of exchange. It is the thing for which all other goods are traded, the means of final payment for such goods on the market.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man. Were the mountains of gold and the valleys of silver, the world would not be one grain of corn the richer; no one comfort would be added to the human race.

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course, it is just more printed-paper. Otherwise why is it that there are still poor countries and poor people around?

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Time is money, but also money is money.

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers.

My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.