William Somerset Maugham

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.

You can’t borrow your way to prosperity. Look for ways to create value and you will attract money.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.

Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.

Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is.

The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.