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George Bernard Shaw Quotes about Money

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Business, Class

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Men, Settling

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Roots, Greatest Wealth

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw
Beauty, Money, Civilization
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2254, e-artnow

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Business, Saving

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Use, Ifs

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

George Bernard Shaw
Respect, Money, Honesty

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Children, Men
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1472, e-artnow

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Money, Men

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Pounds, Week
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Hate, Looks

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Successful, Should Have
The Irrational Knot (1905) preface

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Money, Humorous
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Winning, Gambling
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5565, e-artnow

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Wealth

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Civilization, Hopeful
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2254, e-artnow

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

George Bernard Shaw
Country, Money, World

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