Money creation | Quotes about the magic of money

"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase." Leo Tolstoi

"I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself." Henry Ford

"If it doesn't add value, it's waste." Henry Ford

"Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar which was by law a coin containing 412 1/2 grains of 90 per cent silver. Up until 1933, one could have redeemed the same note for a coin of 25 4/5ths grains of 90 per cent gold. All we do is give the goy more non-redeemable notes, or else copper slugs. But we never give them their gold and silver. Only more paper." Harold Wallace Rosenthal

"Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times." Lew Rockwell

"The larger the government, the more our livings standards are reduced. We are fortunate as a civilization that the progress of free enterprise generally outpaces the regress of government growth, for, if that were not the case, we would be poorer each year - not just in relative terms, but absolutely poorer too. The market is smart and the government is dumb, and to these attributes do we owe the whole of our economic well-being." Lew Rockwell

"Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing." Lew Rockwell

"There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market." Lew Rockwell

"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money." Molière

"Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires." Platon

"The most precious resource we have is time." Steve Jobs

"The de-socialized capitalism of the interregnum hinges on the improvised performances of structurally self-centered, socially disorganized and politically disempowered individuals. Four broad types of behaviours are required of the ‘users’ of post-capitalist social networks for the precarious reproduction of their entropic social life, bestowing resilience both on themselves and on an otherwise unsustainable neoliberal capitalism, summarily and provisionally to be identified as coping, hoping, doping and shopping." Wolfgang Streeck

"God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is." Paul Farmer

"The banking system is the greatest magic trick ever pulled. They create money out of thin air, lend it to you at a brutal interest rate, and then force you to grind your bones to dust for thirty years just to pay them back for something that never even existed." Henry Ford