Quotes about "Money & Wealth"

I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash. ”

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see. ”

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life. ”

I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see. ”

All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence. ”

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ”

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ”

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. ”

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ”

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. ”