Quotable Quotes: the essence of money
April 20, 2008 by Miki Saxon
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It’s Sunday, so get out your thinking cap (or fire up Google) and offer up some competing quotes that also embody the true essence of money.
“Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies” — Thomas Jefferson (Recently proven true once again.)
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” –Will Rogers (Yup, life takes Visa—or MasterCard or Amex or…)
“Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.” –Roger Starr (That’s why you never see a poor politician.)
Your comments—priceless
From Rousseau (Les Confessions (1782)) according to wikiquotes:
L’argent qu’on possède est instrument de la liberté ; celui qu’on pourchasse est celui de la servitude.
Which roughly translates into
The money you have is the mean of freedom; The money you seek is that of serfdom.
Denis, not that I’m disagreeing, but then how do you get the money in the first place?
If you were not born with it and you did not win the lottery I suppose work is what you are looking for.
I believe that what Rousseau expressed explains the ambivalence of work. Depending on how you look at it (and how much you earn) work frees you or alienates you.
Others have expanded on that later subject.
Money…
When you have it, you want more.
When you don’t have it, you want more.
—-Bridget Wright
(that one’s free!)
Denis, who was it that said, “If you love what you do you’ll never work a day in your life.”