Money And Power Quotes

What’s the third metric beyond money and power? I think it’s a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.

Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Many artists and critics see collectors like kids see their parents: as the ones with money and power who just don’t get it. Once they start to mingle with the collectors and learn that they are people who have achieved something who then expand into art, they change their minds.

The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Money and power come as a byproduct of things well done.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

I’m free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you’re going to topple over.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

We who are gathered here may represent a particular delete, not of money and power, but of concern for the earth for the earth’s sake.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land was that they were more interested in money and power and treated the poor and aliens with contempt.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.