Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.
Book: Fight Club
You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play nice house, very sweet house, you got to have a job you don’t like.
Movie: Revolutionary Road
Money comes and goes, yeah? These kids of ours? That’s a one time deal.
TV: Friday Night Lights
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword, the other is by debt.
Movie: Zeitgeist
Everybody stay down! We’re here for the bank’s money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you’re not gonna lose a dime.
Movie: Heat
Corporate management getting rich while their companies go broke is just part of the normal business cycle. A lot of money in America is still made the old-fashioned way—by stealing it.
I don’t care what they do with my book so long as the fucking check clears.
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.
The only reason I’m in Hollywood is that I don’t have the moral courage to refuse the money.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Money smells like feet. Feet get us from where we are standing to other places so that we can stand there. I know what you are thinking…so do bicycles, but even then YOU NEED FEET.
There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Happiness cannot be bought; indeed, money has very little to do with it.
The New York Times, 12/30/45
Money brings you food but not appetite, medicine but not health, acquaintances but not friends, servants but not faithfulness, days of joy but not peace or happiness.
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
It’s good to have money and the things money can buy. But it’s good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.
A simple “I love you” means more than money.
The measure of a man sir, is not in money, position, station or possessions. These things mean nothing. The measure of a man is in his character, wisdom, ability, aliveness, intimacy, creativity, courage, fearlessness, perspective, independence and maturity. You seem terribly impressed with the former sir, which suggests you are seriously lacking in the latter.