Fractional reserve banking is a monetary system where the banks print their own profit.

Instead of a minimum wage, wouldn't a maximum wealth be a fairer option?

Does running out of money count as exercise?

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimise the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of it's term.

Bill Gates has 90 billion dollars… He could buy every baseball team and make them all wear dresses and still have 88 billion dollars.

Top 15 things money can't buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common Sense. Dignity.

We no longer live life. We consume it.

You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets more than the life of the citizens always do that every day.

New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the "fool's gold", controls the fools.

There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together.

If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!

Banks do not create money for the public good. They are businesses owned by private shareholders. Their purpose is to make a profit.

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy, but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

99% of all problems can be solved by money - and for the other 1% there's alcohol.

God does not play dice, bankers do.

Do you want to make money from Facebook? It's easy. Just go to your account settings, deactivate your account and go to work!

To put a trillion dollars in context; if you had spent a million dollars every DAY since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion dollars.

When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs'. Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine, where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.

I also got the impression that having a lot of money can turn a decent person into an arsehole.

I made my money the old-fashioned way, I inherited it.

The trick is to stop thinking of it as ‘your’ money.

I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million dollars, or ten million dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clucth of his greed twenty or thirty million dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hudreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.

The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness, or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own backyards, and they don't mind admitting it.

Gold is the money of kings; Silver is the money of Gentlemen; Barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves.

It's clearly a budget. It's got lots of numbers in it.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

If you have a gun you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank you can rob everyone.

When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

There's no way Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there's are people starving. There's no way! There's no way that there people should own planes and there people don't have houses, apartments, shacks, drawers, pants! I know you're rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there's somebody with no room?! It just don't make sense to me. It don't.

The more money you make, the more problems you get.

The four most expensive words in the English language are; 'This time it's different'.

Capitalism has neither the capacoty, nor the morality, nor the ethics to solve the problems of poverty.

A modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

It’s easy to meet expenses – everywhere you go, there they are.

I’m so poor, I can’t even pay attention.

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

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.