Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"Money is important, but a film remembered for decades was never about the money."
Ismail Merchant
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"Wealth without generosity is merely expensive slavery."
Giovanni Medici
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"Money amplifies what a man truly is; it does not create what he is not."
Giovanni Medici
"Money is the sinews of beauty in the fashion world."
Christian Dior
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"Poverty is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying."
Coco Chanel
"Money is a good servant, but a bad master."
Lorenzo de Medici
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"Money is merely a tool, not the purpose of creation."
Ismail Merchant
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"Money follows passion, not the other way around in the arts."
Ismail Merchant
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"Money is like manure, if you pile it up it smells, but if you spread it around it does a lot of good."
Cosimo Medici
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants and contented mind."
Cosimo Medici
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"Money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it stinks. But if you spread it around, you can grow something with it"
Jacob Fugger
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"Money is blood; keep it flowing"
Jacob Fugger
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"Money is a tool; wisdom is the hand that wields it."
Giovanni Medici
"Money is a good servant but a bad master."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"In business, as in life, reputation is worth more than gold."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"I measure my wealth not in pounds but in the quality of my work."
Josiah Wedgwood
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"Money is but a tool; wisdom is the craftsman."
Cosimo Medici
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"Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we are surrounded by empty faces and empty hearts."
Coco Chanel
"Money is power, and power is the ability to command what you need."
Charles Yerkes
"The cost of money is often far greater than its monetary value."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"Wealth accumulated without wisdom becomes a burden rather than a blessing to the soul."
Giovanni Medici
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"A merchant who does not make profit is not a merchant at all, but a fool with an open purse."
Jacob Fugger
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"A fortune poorly used is a curse disguised as a blessing."
Jacob Fugger
"Money is like manure; if you let it lie around doing nothing, it smells; but when you spread it around, it helps things grow."
Lorenzo de Medici
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"Money is only useful when it is put to work."
William Rockefeller
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"The real key to making money is to learn how to give value."
William Rockefeller
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"The true measure of wealth is not in gold, but in the quality of one's relationships."
Cosimo Medici
"Money is the root of all advancement in this world."
Charles Yerkes
"I have built my fortune on the principle that sentiment has no place in commerce."
Charles Yerkes