19th century, from earlier forms such as gold speaks (1666, in full, “Man prates, but gold speaks.”), as translation from Italian by Giovanni Torriano, in Piazza Universale di Proverbi Italiani: or, A Common Place of Italian Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 179.[1]
1974 February 9, “Tufts Porno”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 2:
He illustrated the fact of money talking in the case of Mrs. Rita Warren who successfully stopped the showing of 1001 Danish Delights in a local Norwell theatre, yet was promptly arrested when attempting the same picketing in front of the more profitable Ben Sack "57" theatre to stop the showing of The Exorcist.
2014 April 25, Paul Krugman, “The Piketty Panic”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
Money still talks — indeed, thanks in part to the Roberts court, it talks louder than ever. Still, ideas matter too, shaping both how we talk about society and, eventually, what we do.
Japanese: 金が物を言う(kane ga mono o iu), 地獄の沙汰も金次第(ja)(jigoku no sata mo kane shidai), 閻魔大王が下す地獄での判決も金次第では軽くもなる(Enma Daiō ga kudasu jigoku de no hanketsu mo kane shidaide wa karuku mo naru)
