Monetary Influence Quotes

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

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

But it is pretty to see what money will do.

Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.

Dollar Diplomacy

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war.

Campaign contributors are operating vicariously through the power of their purse rather than through the power of their ideas.

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.

The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

If fifty dollars will purchase the vote of one Supervisor, the votes of how many supervisors will three hundred and fifty dollars purchase?

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

Nobody takes any change seriously unless there's some money involved.

I will not permit my government to be influenced by the markets.

Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.

People say money ain't nothing; money is basically everything.

Money talks — but credit has an echo.