Some people are so poor all they have is money (2021)
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... Some people are so poor all they have is money is a quote attributed to Patrick Meagher as well as Bob Marley.

It's always difficult to know who the original author of a quote was, and probably doesn't matter.

It's certainly the kind of thing Marley would have said. The below transcript is from an interview where his views on money are made clear.

Interviewer: are you a rich man?
Marley: what do you mean, rich?
Interviewer: you have a lot of possessions?
Marley: a lot of money in the bank? - possessions make you rich?
Marley: I don't know that type of richness, my richness is life

Coco Chanel made a similar remark when she said "There are people who have money and there are people who are rich".

I see Marley's (assuming it was him) quote of "Some people are so poor all they have is money" as an inverted, more concise version of Chanel's.

It probably doesn't need explaining, however, this quote relies on poor being viewed holistically and not simply in the context of money. It's an observation of people who have nothing but money, those that only care and think about their bank balance.

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