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Only the little people pay taxes.

—Leona Helmsley, 1989

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

—Dorothy Parker

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder. 

—James J. Cramer, 2006

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

—The Bible

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

—Horace, c. 25 BC

Much money makes a country poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.

—George Herbert, 1640

Business? Why, it’s very simple; business is other people’s money.

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

Money, not morality, is the principle of commercial nations.

—Thomas Jefferson

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

—J. Paul Getty

He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

—Roger L’Estrange, 1692

Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911