Juvenal Quotes

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?

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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

For such is the disease of wealth, which knows no limit to its desire of more...

The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.

Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money.

I'm not averse to making a lot of money. But where does that end? I hang out with people with hundreds of millions of dollars. Is that the standard by which I should measure myself? Where does that take you if you're in my business? I think it takes you to pretty dark, corrupt places.

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

I haven't turned into some rich monster. I've kept my perspective. But I am a bit spoiled. It's hard not to be a little spoiled by having a lot of money.

And plenty makes us poor.

The more money the louder it talks.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

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…

There is always greed. There is nothing wrong with greed.

… an avalanche of avarice

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

…luxury is the result of wealth, or it makes wealth necessary. It corrupts both rich and poor, the one by possessing, the other by coveting. It sells out the fatherland to indolence and vanity; it deprives the State of all its Citizens by enslaving some of them to others and all of them to opinion.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.

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..