Money Quotes
Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants."Ludwig von Mises
"Money should serve humanity, not the reverse."Noam Chomsky
"Money is neither good nor evil; it is the measure of exchange."Alfred North Whitehead
"Money follows those with vision; those chasing money lose their way."Paul Feyerabend
"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth. The richest person is often the poorest in spirit."Karl Popper
"The most important thing to understand is that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."Ludwig von Mises
"Every penny spent by the government is a penny taken from someone else."Ludwig von Mises
"The desire for wealth is not the same as greed."Ludwig von Mises
"Money is the medium of exchange that enables civilization."Ludwig von Mises
"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
"The most important thing to understand is that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."Ludwig von Mises
"Money is the most liquid and marketable of all commodities, serving as the medium through which all economic transactions occur."Ludwig von Mises
"Inflation is the increase in the quantity of money relative to the available goods and services."Ludwig von Mises
"Fiat money, when divorced from any commodity standard, is inherently unstable and destined to fail."Ludwig von Mises
"The expansion of credit necessarily leads to an unsustainable boom and inevitable bust."Ludwig von Mises
"Inflation is the method by which governments silently rob their citizens."Ludwig von Mises
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."John Maynard Keynes
"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
"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
"If you want to know what the Lord thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."Jérémie Bentham
"Money is the root of all evil."Jérémie Bentham
"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
"The pursuit of profit often requires the obscuring of truth."Noam Chomsky
"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency."John Maynard Keynes
"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency."John Maynard Keynes
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."John Maynard Keynes