Money Quotes - Page 7

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Inspiring

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• Frugality includes all the other virtues.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wealth, Virtue, Frugality

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• Mother always said you were greedy.

  Ralph Bellamy

  Mother, Greedy, Said

  "Fictional character: Randolph Duke". "Trading Places", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Spring, Insignificant Things, May

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

  Socrates

  Teaching, Men, Greed

  "Apology" by Plato (translated by Benjamin Jowett), 2008.

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• What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.

  Julian Assange

  Men, Years, Zuckerberg

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• Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Next, Comedy

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• If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

  William Shatner

  Saving, Want, Ifs

  William Shatner, David Fisher (2009). “Up Till Now: The Autobiography”, p.197, Macmillan

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• The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Mind, Important

  "Money: Whence it came, where it went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 15, 29, 1975.

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• Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

  Earl Warren

  Men, May, Franklin

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, World And Love

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• Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Democracy, Bankers

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• Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

  Alfred Marshall

  Country, Gold, Silver

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.51, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

  Kid Rock

  Budweiser, Want, Drink

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• I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

  Steve Martin

  Inspirational, Funny, Dog

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• The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.

  Washington Irving

  Land, Dollars, Peculiar

  1855 Wolfert's Roost,'The Creole Village'.

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• Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

  John Milton

  Honor, Realms, Conquest

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.91

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• Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Taming, Taming Of The Shrew

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. [82]

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• Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
  [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

  Horace

  Firsts, Wealth, Virtue

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• Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Roots, Evil, Potatoes

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Greatest Wealth, Insightful

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.305

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• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  Samuel Butler

  Order, Long, Brain

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.57, The Floating Press

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• There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Business

  Andrew Carnegie (1968). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

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