Quotes about money

"Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors."

Adams, Joey on money   

"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god."

Alexander, Scott on money
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"Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully."

Alexander, Scott on money   

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Allen, Woody on money
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"Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy."

Amis, Martin on money   

"Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it."

Armour, J. Ogden on money   

"Money is something you got to make in case you don't die."

Asnas, Max on money   

"Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does."

Austen, Jane on money
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"Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money."

Ayckbourn, Alan on money   

"No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being."

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"Money makes a good servant, but a bad master."

Bacon, Francis on money
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"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him."

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"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

Bacon, Francis on money   

"Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more."

Bacon, Francis on money   

"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."

Baldwin, James on money
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"Finance, like time, devours its own children."

Balzac, Honore De on money   

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"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."

Barnum, P.T. on money   

"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?"

Barrymore, John on money
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"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on money   

"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand."

Behn, Aphra on money   

"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."

Belloc, Hilaire on money   

"When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back."

Berra, Yogi on money   

"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."

Berra, Yogi on money
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"He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]"

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"The love of money is the root of all evil."

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"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]"

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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."

Billings, Josh on money   

"Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche."

Billings, Victoria on money   

"A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want."

Binger, William on money   

"I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it."

Bird, Larry on money
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"Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof."

Blotnick, Srully on money   

"The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money."

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"If you marry for money, you will surely earn it."

Bowen, Ezra on money   

"What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet."

Branson, Richard on money   

"I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying."

Bodie, Walford on money   

"Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."

Brown, Hobart on money
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"It's important to me that money not be important to me."

Brown, Les on money   

"The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things."

Brown, Norman O. on money   

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

Buffett, Warren on money
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"I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years."

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