Top 100 Quotes About Money And Power
#1. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.
Henry Chester
#2. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
#3. New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.
Joan Didion
#4. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.
Arianna Huffington
#5. Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
Michael Ian Black
#6. At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
Arianna Huffington
#7. Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.
Elizabeth Warren
#8. A huge advertisement in the unmistakably bright red tones of Vodacom, the global mobile phone giant, looked on this tawdry scene. It read to me like a distilled message about the only values that remained in this country, whose leaders were once committed Marxists: money and power.
Howard W. French
#9. This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice Walker
#10. People have no idea how strong a pull sex, money, and power have on them until they try to resist their pull.
Brian D. McLaren
#11. People kill over money and power and love, but no one kills over gnomes.
S.J. Kincaid
#12. What preoccupies us is the way we define success. If you see your life purely in terms of money and power, then everything in your life becomes about 'Am I getting ahead?' and that is truly a barbaric way to live, because it eliminates huge chunks of our humanity.
Arianna Huffington
#13. One of the biggest lessons people on Earth have is the false belief that looks, money and power are requirements for love, when it's the opposite.
Brownell Landrum
#15. Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice Walker
#16. When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.
Pope Francis
#17. Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can't afford airtime in a commercialized, status-consciou s, and cynical world.
Alain De Botton
#18. You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.
Jay-Z
#19. I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.
Patch Adams
#20. The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.
Stephen Sizer
#21. I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In this I am a purist. I love people motivated by love and not by power. If you have money and power, and are motivated by love, you give it all away.
Anais Nin
#22. I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
Katie Holmes
#23. To the heads of the new Islamic State, their God was money and power on earth.
Kenneth Eade
#24. Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.
John Travolta
#25. Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
Christopher Reeve
#26. If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
Patch Adams
#27. The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.
James Lee Burke
#28. The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#29. The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
Elizabeth Warren
#30. All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.
Aldous Huxley
#31. How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
P. J. O'Rourke
#32. If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
Henry A. Wallace
#33. Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.
Jason Hartman
#34. The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness
Dalai Lama XIV
#35. The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
Nhat Hanh
#36. If hard work and knowledge were respected instead of facial beauty, money, and power; then the world could have changed for good.
Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury
#37. When we lose faith in our officers of the law, it harms all of as. It cripples our criminal justice system. It threatens the most vulnerable parts of our community. It allows money and power to subvert justice.
Rob Thomas
#38. The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.
Frederick Lenz
#39. When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.
Penelope Spheeris
#40. It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.
Dalai Lama
#41. At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley
#42. Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.
Burt Shavitz
#43. When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.
Madame De Stael
#44. Why don't people with money and power realize that when they screw around with the little guy when they don't have to - especially when it's a little guy like me with not a damn thing to lose - sometimes the little guy is just going to get pissed off and stubborn up?
James Anderson
#45. We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth's sake.
Ansel Adams
#46. If people stopped having sex, the world would end in about a hundred years. Think about that shit. If money and power didn't exist, people would still be fucking.
A.D. Aliwat
#47. Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.
Dat Phan
#48. Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.
Maya Angelou
#49. My first reaction was that the adult world was fake and liars and basically worked for money and power. I didn't want to live in that world, so I spent a year, aged 17 to 18, trying to kill myself. I didn't want to live in a world of violence and injustice.
Patch Adams
#50. Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
Elizabeth Warren
#51. We need to strengthen such inner values as contentment, patience and tolerance, as well as compassion for others. Keeping in mind that it is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends, compassion is the key to ensuring our own well-being.
Dalai Lama
#52. The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
Joan Didion
#53. If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
John Travolta
#54. Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don't get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.
Mark Kostabi
#55. Missionaries have righteous goals and are trying to make the world a better place. Mercenaries are out for money and power and will run over anyone who gets in the way.
Brad Stone
#57. Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
Sun Ra
#58. The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.
Jamie Dornan
#59. Artists are supposed to stay hungry." "That's bullshit. That's a myth invented to keep the artist down because art is powerful. You give an artist both money and power and they're dangerous.
Michael Connelly
#60. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
Henry A. Wallace
#61. The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power.
Daniel Keys Moran
#62. People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.
Felix Dennis
#63. It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.
Jim Cramer
#64. The business conduct of the disciples of wise men is truthful and faithful ... He does not allow himself to be made a surety or a guarantor and does not accept the power of attorney ... He lends money and is gracious. He shall not take away business from his fellow man.
Maimonides
#65. The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.
Chuck Palahniuk
#66. Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.
Edward Abbey
#67. When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. Not really. They're fighting to destroy their enemies.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#68. Three things ruin a man," Harry would tell a reporter long afterward. "Power, money, and women. "I never wanted power," he said. "I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now." On
David McCullough
#69. England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#70. We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
Warren Farrell
#71. The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
George Gilder
#72. The basis of Cosmic Ordering is the belief that the universe is not dead matter, but pure energy which responds to our vibrations and to our frequencies.
Stephen Richards
#73. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God ... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
John D. Rockefeller
#74. The power of a successful salesman is not putting his hand in the customer's pocket to pull his money out. but rather manipulate the customer's mind to let him put his hand and happily pull the money and give it to you
Hisham Fawzi
#75. You don't know yet what money is. Money is power, when you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put money in thy purse.
James Joyce
#76. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#77. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
Nikita Khrushchev
#78. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein,the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.
Freeman Dyson
#79. You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.
Terence McKenna
#80. When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
Stefan Molyneux
#81. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.
Steve Forbes
#82. Is it any more moral to dilute the value of the purchasing power of the money you hold in your wallet than it is for the farmer to dilute the milk supply with water?
Ron Paul
#83. It's wherever business rules, business is going to get the politicians they want because they control the money and money controls the power.
Rob Walton
#84. Greed may not be good, but it's not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can't have.
Hiromu Arakawa
#85. Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
Gloria Steinem
#86. There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.
Henry Ford
#87. Gone are the days when women were attracted by a man's hansomeness. Today, we are talking about cash, and your compromise to become a tiger in bed.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#88. If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.
Donna Reed
#89. They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
Lord Byron
#91. Money is power in American politics. It always has been.
William Greider
#92. By using power, money, fraud, the enemy is interested in gaining control over the world of Islam.
Mohammed Emami-Kashani
#93. You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
Lauryn Hill
#95. When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.
Naomi Wolf
#96. Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.
Richard J. Needham
#97. Energy = Future = Power = Money = Career = Recycling (E = R).
Mehmet Kececi
#98. at the city level, support for community control didn't have much to do with teaching and learning. It was about money, political alliances, and power.
Dana Goldstein
#99. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.
John Perkins
#100. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
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