Monetary Significance Quotes

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.

I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees.

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.