Money Quotes

"Saving is the residual of income after consumption; not vice versa."

"Capitalism has allowed us to escape the natural condition of mankind, which is universal poverty."

"Inflation is a hidden tax on the people, more destructive than any overt taxation."

"Money is not the root of all evil; the evil is the desire to obtain it through coercion and fraud."

"The business cycle is not caused by the free market but by government manipulation of credit and money."

"Inflation is the most insidious tax because the people do not recognize it as a tax."

"Money is a tool, not a master."

"Wealth without wisdom is poverty."

"Inflation is a form of taxation without representation."

"Money is the most important invention after language for the progress of civilization."

"Government spending is not merely the transfer of resources; it is the transfer of power."

"Government cannot create wealth; it can only redistribute what has been created."

"How much of human life is wasted in the pursuit of wealth that brings no satisfaction?"

"Property is nothing but the expectation of deriving certain advantages from the thing which we are said to possess."

"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy freedom."

"Money is a means to an end, not the end itself."

"Money is merely a tool for satisfying natural desires."

"True wealth consists not in abundance of goods, but in moderation of desires."

"The pursuit of money without morality leads only to spiritual poverty."

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

"The love of money as a possession is different from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life."

"Gold is a barbarous relic."

"The price system works itself."

"Wealth is not created by government but by the voluntary exchange between individuals"

"Money is congealed labor, and one must respect what it represents."

"Money magnifies what we already are; it does not change our nature."

"Wealth is simply the power to move matter according to one's desires."

"Money is one of the greatest instruments of freedom ever invented by man."

"Money is real only insofar as we collectively perceive it so."

"Money is the materialized version of human desire and ambition."