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Money is mourned with deeper sorrow than friends or kindred.

—Juvenal, 128

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

—James J. Cramer, 2006

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

—Thomas Jefferson

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money: therefore money is better than counsel.

—Jonathan Swift, 1702

Only the little people pay taxes.

—Leona Helmsley, 1989

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

—Alexandre Dumas, 1857

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

—J. Paul Getty

Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.

—Kin Hubbard

Whoever expects to walk peacefully in the world must be money’s guest.

—Norman O. Brown, 1959

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

—Aristotle, c. 322 BC

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

—Roger L’Estrange, 1692

It costs a lot of money to be rich.

—Peter Boyle, 2002

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

—George Herbert, 1640