Money Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This busyness was not about money--despite the chic catalogs piled on the kitchen table. It was only marginally about good-heartedness or politics. I was…

— Mary Sojourner

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply these things I value more than profits.…

— Julie Klassen

“There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some…

— Wallace Stegner

“I saw that what had appeared to me to be not worth twenty francs when it had been offered to me for twenty francs…

— Marcel Proust

“My name used to be in the papers daily As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I…

— Edgar Lee Masters

“The madness of wealth. Sometimes you think you're spending the money, but all along the money's spending you. But only if you worship it.…

— John Green

“Did you not hear me? The money is meaningless. The well's true treasure is in the desires, dreams, and wishes poured into those coins.…

— Jake Wyatt

“It was my mother who regularly reminded me that I was merely a steward of any wealth I gained. With wealth came the responsibility…

— Bill Gates

“But they had a money value: they represented a cash profit to others. They must have sensed that--sensed that they were worth something.”

— Margaret Atwood

“But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things…

— Tim O'Brien

“As far as I could tell, he earned his hundred thousand a year by wandering the hallway with a Styrofoam cup of coffee, smiling…

— Tom Perrotta