Money Quotes
Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.
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"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth; do not confuse the two."Christine de Pizan
"Money is a tool for living, not the purpose of life itself."Juan Luis Vives
"Wealth consists not in having riches, but in having a contented mind."Francesco Petrarch
"The true measure of wealth is not what you have, but what you can do without."Gerolamo Cardano
"Money is like manure; it's not worth much unless it's spread around."Francis Bacon
"Riches are for spending."Francis Bacon
"Money is the root of evil only to those who make it their master."Francesco Petrarch
"Money cannot buy happiness."Francesco Petrarch
"Money is a tool, not a measure of human worth."Juan Luis Vives
"The pursuit of wealth without wisdom leads only to hollow victory."Matteo Ricci
"Money is a tool for building the world we wish to inhabit."Matteo Ricci
"Money is important, but it is not the measure of importance."Baltasar Gracián
"To be poor in means but rich in understanding is to possess true wealth."Gerolamo Cardano
"The merchant's ledger and the philosopher's treatise are both attempts to account for value."Gerolamo Cardano
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."Francis Bacon
"Expense, and great expense, may be an essential to true economy."Francis Bacon
"Money is a tool, not the measure of a person's worth."Niccolò Copernicus
"Money is meaningless without love and purpose to guide its use."Niccolò Copernicus
"Money is a means, not an end."Raphael Sanzio
"Money cannot buy happiness."Raphael Sanzio
"Money is a means, not an end."Giordano Bruno
"Money cannot buy the soul."Giordano Bruno
"Money is the root of all evil when it is the root of all love."Thomas More
"Money is a tool; those who worship it become its slaves."Baltasar Gracián
"Money magnifies character; greed becomes greed, generosity becomes generosity."Baltasar Gracián
"Money is a tool, not a master."Giordano Bruno
"Wealth is the test of a man's character."Desiderius Erasmus
"Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief."Desiderius Erasmus
"The measure of a man's wealth is not in his coffers, but in the contentment of his mind."Thomas More
"Wealth without wisdom is a poison that kills slowly from within."Thomas More