Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, on the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.
—Peggy Noonan
The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
—Kin Hubbard
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
—William Jennings Bryan
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
—Lichty and Wagner
Only sick music makes money today.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
—Jules Renard
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
—Jackie Mason
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
—Mark Twain
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
—Socrates
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
—H. L. Mencken
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.
—Annie Dillard
I got my first full-time job, but it's weird. I could swear I was making more money in college, working for my parents as their daughter.
—Melanie Reno
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's no one to live in it.
—Arthur Miller
Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.
—Eugene V. Debs