George Orwell Quotes

12 quotes from George Orwell on investing and motivation.

On investing

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm-they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
You can be rich or deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.
Page after page, advert after advert. Lipsticks, undies, tinned food, patent medicines, slimming cures, face-creams. A sort of cross-section of the money world. A panorama of ignorance, greed, vulgarity, snobbishness, whoredom and disease.
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
For money buys all virtues. Money suffereth long and is kid, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own.

That is her style of beauty.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
When it comes to the pinch human beings are heroic.
It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write.