Money, Marilyn Monroe

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

Economics, George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

- George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Happiness, Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), “The Garden of Eden” Ch. 11

Finance, Nicolas Sarkozy

Purely financial capitalism has perverted the logic of capitalism, Financial capitalism is a system of irresponsibility and ... is amoral. It is a system where the logic of the market excuses everything.

- Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, At the Symposium "New World, New Capitalism," Paris, Jan. 9, 2009