Money Quote by John Steinbeck

“They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“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

“Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it.”

— James S.A. Corey

“financial transactions that produced both wealth and unpopularity.”

— Thomas Sowell

“And to make the matter worse, rich as they were, they never were able to pay anybody anything that they owed. They continued to…

— Anthony Trollope

“He could not help a certain resentment that a conscience seemed to be so very expensive, and yet had no substantial form which one…

— Naomi Novik

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths…

— Richard Russo

“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

“Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with…

— Timothy Brook

“But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In a way, finance was even better than art. It was nothing but an expression of potential, of power, of our present moment in…

— Jade Chang

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser