Money Quotes

Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.

13074 quotes

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"Money is a servant of life, not its master."
Christopher Dawson
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"Money is a test of character."
Christopher Dawson
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"Money is not made or lost; it simply changes hands."
Margaret Mead
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"Money is a tool; what we build with it defines our character."
Margaret Mead
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"Money is a medium of exchange, but meaning must be found elsewhere."
Bronislaw Malinowski
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"Money is congealed power, and those who control it shape the destiny of civilizations."
Oswald Spengler
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"Money corrupts not by its presence, but by the obsession it generates."
Oswald Spengler
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"Money is crystallized time and effort."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Money follows value, not the reverse."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Money is freedom with conditions."
Jacques Le Goff
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"A society organized around material gain alone will eventually discover that it has gained the whole world but lost its soul."
Christopher Dawson
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"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth."
Marc Bloch
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"Money is crystallized will."
Oswald Spengler
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"Money reflects the values of those who possess it."
Oswald Spengler
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"Money is frozen time and crystallized labor."
Jacques Le Goff
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"Money is a tool; what matters is what we build with it."
Jacques Le Goff
"Money is a means, not an end."
Fernand Braudel
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"Money is congealed power, nothing more and nothing less."
Oswald Spengler
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"Money is neither evil nor good; its morality derives from how it is used."
Arnold Toynbee
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"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth."
Margaret Mead
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"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."
Michel Crouzet
"Money does not determine all value, though it influences much."
Eric Hobsbawm
"Monetary systems are not neutral tools but shapers of social relationships."
Fernand Braudel
"Wealth accumulates slowly through generations, never through individual effort alone."
Fernand Braudel
"Inflation and deflation are not abstract economic phenomena; they reshape human lives."
Fernand Braudel
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"Money is merely a tool; it cannot define our worth."
Maurice Natanson
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"Money is a tool, but only wisdom determines its purpose."
Michel Crouzet
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"Money follows value; seek first to create value."
Michel Crouzet
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"The pursuit of money often obscures deeper human needs."
Peter Berger
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"Money is frozen labor, and labor is frozen time."
Philip Rieff