Money Power Quotes

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

Carl Sandburg

Money, Blessing, Roots

Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Witty, Money

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Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, Debt Free, Owing A Debt

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Trust, Money, Investing

1857-8 The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.2.

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There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

Napoleon Bonaparte

World, More Money, One Thing

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Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

Inspirational, Money, Powerful

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.315, Hamilton Books

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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Walter Annenberg

Power, Political, Political Power

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, Believe, Army

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Money: power at its most liquid.

Mason Cooley

Literature, Liquid, Saving Money

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Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Matthew Vaughn

Power, Drug, Crime

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A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

Matt Groening

Money, Montana, Sugar

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Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want equal rights and equal pay for equal work, and I agree with them 100%. Though on some days it is hard to figure out how a species that controls 97% of the money and all the pussy can be downtrodden.

Larry L. King

Sex, Children, Women

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Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Abraham Lincoln

Adversity, Bankers, Prey

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I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

Country, Money, Hands

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Inspirational, Success, Wise

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1808). “Works”, p.380

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Compromising your integrity for money, power, or fame will come back to haunt you.

Ernie J Zelinski

Inspirational, Integrity, Compromise

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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

E.C. Riegel

Mean, Government, Citizens

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A fool and his money are soon partying.

Steven Wright

Funny, Money, Party

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Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

E.C. Riegel

Sovereign, Realizing

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Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

War, Unhappiness, Strife

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Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

Tao Lin

Pyramid Schemes, Self, Ideas

Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.

Dada Vaswani

Enthusiasm, Influence, Assets

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It is a basic human need that everyone wants to
live a happy life. For this, one has to experience
real happiness. The so-called happiness that one
experiences by having money, power, and
indulging in sensual pleasures is not real
happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting.
For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness,
one has to make a journey deep within oneself and
get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper
levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at
the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy
at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

S. N. Goenka

Real, Happy Life, Journey

S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing

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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

Erich Fromm

Art, Luxury, Soul

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