MONEY QUOTES VII

quotations about money

If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it.

EPICTETUS

The Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion and Fragments

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You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Whatever you want must first be born in mind; nothing can come into the objective world that is not already in mind. Human beings have different wants and different ideals. While money in itself has no value except as it is employed as a medium of exchange, and to promote health, happiness and usefulness; hence, in the last analysis, money is an important factor in helping to bring into outward expression ideas and ideals, which are first born in mind.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"Money", Human Life from Many Angles


The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

DAVID GERROLD

Under the Eye of God

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Rule No. 1: Never lose money.
Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1.

WARREN BUFFET

The Tao of Warren Buffet

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No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

Swift as Desire

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

JAMES BALDWIN

"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy", Esquire, May 1961

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Money often costs too much.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

The Conduct of Life

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It is easy, of course, to point out the dangers resulting from a too intense devotion to money-getting. Bacon calls riches "the baggage of virtue"; and we all know how the Romans, in their heroic days, when they annihilated their foes, expressed their contempt by a similar word, impedimenta; and that when they grew weak and degraded they clung to their gold, with which they bought off the barbarians who invaded them. But whatever may be said of the dangers of riches, the dangers of poverty are tenfold greater. A condition in which one is exposed to continual want, not only of the luxuries but of the veriest necessaries of life, as well as to disease and discouragement, is exceedingly unfavorable to the exercise of the higher functions of the mind and soul. The poor man is hourly beset by troops of temptations which the rich man never knows. Doubtless the highest virtues are sometimes found to flourish even in the cold clime and sterile soil of poverty. Not only industry, honesty, frugality, perseverance amid hardships and ever-baffling discouragement, severe self-sacrifice, tender affections, unwavering trust in Providence, all are formed blooming in the hearts of the poorest poor--even in the sunless regions of absolute destitution, where honesty might be expected to wear an everlasting scowl of churlishness, and a bitter disbelief in the love of God to accompany obedience to the laws of man. But it is the most insufferable of all cants to hear these qualities spoken of as if they were indigenous to poverty, when we know that they flourish in spite of it.

WILLIAM MATHEWS

"Money--Its Use and Abuse", Hints on Success in Life


'Tis money that begets money.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

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No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

LARRY MCMURTRY

Some Can Whistle

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Money spent withdraws its charm.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Money ... is the symbol of duty, it is the sacrament of having done for mankind that which mankind wanted. Mankind may not be a very good judge, but there is no better.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Erewhon


Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

FRANCES BURNEY

The Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney

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Stripped of ideals, mere money making is among the coarsest of occupations.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Not teaching your kids about money is like not caring whether they eat. If they enter the world without financial knowledge, they will have a much harder go of it.

DONALD TRUMP

How to Get Rich

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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

CHARLES DICKENS

Our Mutual Friend

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