Financial Obsession Quotes

My mind on my money, my money on my mind.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

I hate weekends because there is no stock market.

There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.

I love money, but will money ever love me in return?

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

The love for money is only one among many.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

The dollar bill is God in the States. All those Pelican people just believe in money and nothing else.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

You can see it in terms of the obsession on Wall Street with not just profits but greed, more profit, more profit.

We worship money instead of honour.

It's the same old story, all you think about is money.

The ambitious sacrifices all to what he terms honor, as the miser all to money.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.