Benjamin Franklin Quotes

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

It all boils down to power and money.

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

Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

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

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Desire creates the power.

I think money, power, fame changes people a lot.

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.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

All power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

Money is the only Monarch.

I can buy any man in the world.

There are two things that are fundamental—money and power, and I don’t care much about money

Political ambition, like other kinds of ambition, is a basic human appetite …. Like other human appetites, ambition is not evenly distributed among the population, but enough people with substantial political ambition are naturally drawn to political careers to make the problem of controlling it a major aspect of constitutional government.

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

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..

I want to ultimately own the world.

'Wall Street' was the big movie of 1987, the year in which Harveys opened. It was a film about greed and self-indulgence, about hunger for success, and Michael Douglas's line, 'breakfast is for wimps,' became a mantra for anyone who wanted to get to the top.

Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!