Money Quotes

Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.

13074 quotes

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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Money should serve humanity, not the reverse."
Noam Chomsky
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"Money is neither good nor evil; it is the measure of exchange."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"Money follows those with vision; those chasing money lose their way."
Paul Feyerabend
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"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth. The richest person is often the poorest in spirit."
Karl Popper
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"The most important thing to understand is that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Every penny spent by the government is a penny taken from someone else."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The desire for wealth is not the same as greed."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Money is the medium of exchange that enables civilization."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Wealth is not earned; it is extracted from the labor and resources of others."
Noam Chomsky
"Money reflects social values more than material needs."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Money is frozen relationship, power in material form."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"The most important thing to understand is that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Money is the most liquid and marketable of all commodities, serving as the medium through which all economic transactions occur."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Inflation is the increase in the quantity of money relative to the available goods and services."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Fiat money, when divorced from any commodity standard, is inherently unstable and destined to fail."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The expansion of credit necessarily leads to an unsustainable boom and inevitable bust."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Inflation is the method by which governments silently rob their citizens."
Ludwig von Mises
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"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The love of money as a possession is quite different from the love of money as a means of enjoyment and appreciation."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The love of money as a means is important for every single thing we do."
John Maynard Keynes
"The price system is the mechanism that performs all those functions."
Friedrich Hayek
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"If you want to know what the Lord thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Money is the root of all evil."
Jérémie Bentham
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"Money is a tool, not an end in itself."
Karl Popper
"Money gains meaning only through what it enables us to do."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"The pursuit of profit often requires the obscuring of truth."
Noam Chomsky
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"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."
John Maynard Keynes
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"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
John Maynard Keynes