“What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.” YearsTwoMoneyClearProveHundredDoctrinePounds Book:The Poems of Samuel Butler ... Source: The Poems of Samuel Butler ...
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.” HappinessWealthResultsMoneyBusinessOughtSixTwentiesMiseryRichesIncomeMaking MoneyPoundsSaving MoneyAnnualsNineteenExpendituresFunny MoneyFrugalityRich MoneyInspirational MoneyMoney HappinessBest MoneyMoney And HappinessInspirational Money MakingCan Money Buy HappinessSmart Money Author:Charles Dickens
“I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.” FeelsGirlLosesPoorMoneyGrewGrew UpScaredFatsPetPoundsParanoiaFat Girl Author:Cher
“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.” ValuesPoorMoneyComfortLowsLaborGoldTwentiesAriseSilverPoundsGuineaHighs And LowsIntrinsic Value Author:Bernard de Mandeville
“If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.” IfsWorldNeedsArtArtistMoneyBuildingEqualToolsPoundsPatronPatronageNeed Money Book:The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924 Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924
“Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.” DifferentHelpingUseValuesSocialNaturalMoneyEconomyNeededEqualBenefitsDiscoveryEconomicsMarkDollarsShoesOilPoundsMore MoneyCommodityScarcityCirculationReckoningAlleviateCopperBeing Equal Author:Murray Rothbard