Quotations on money

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." Gospel of Matthew 6:24 (KJV)

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." First Epistle to Timothy 6:10 (KJV)

"Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it sure the hell can rent it for awhile." Daniel Guy Sprecker

"When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." Voltaire

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money." Cree proverb

"When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart." John Wesley

"Money. It's a gas." Pink Floyd

"Everybody loves money. That's why it's called 'money'." Danny DeVito

"Money doesn't talk, it swears." Bob Dylan

"I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew five thousand dollars at a reincarnation seminar. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once." Ronnie Shakes

"So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?" Ayn Rand

"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled." John Kenneth Galbraith

"If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money." New England Proverb

"Money is a stupid measure of achievement, but unfortunately it is the only universal measure we have." - Charles Steinmetz