Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

"A nation's wealth is measured not in gold, but in the character of its people."
Wilhelm II
"Wealth accumulated at the expense of integrity is a hollow victory."
Wilhelm II
"The desire for money is not inherently corrupt; it is the excess that corrupts."
John Stuart Mill
E
"Mere parsimony is not economy...Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."
Edmund Burke
E
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
Edmund Burke
E
"The effect of frugality is not always to make people rich, but to make them less poor."
Edmund Burke
Q
"One cannot purchase happiness with all the wealth in the world."
Queen Victoria
O
"Money is power, and power is money"
Otto von Bismarck
"The money earned through integrity has true value."
Wilhelm II
"Money cannot buy happiness."
Marie Antoinette
N
"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
Napoleon Bonaparte
O
"I am accustomed to paying men exactly what they are worth."
Otto von Bismarck
O
"The first generation earns the wealth, the second spends it."
Otto von Bismarck
"A man's wealth is ultimately measured in relationships, not currency."
Wilhelm II
"Money is a tool of power, not power itself."
Wilhelm II
C
"Money is a tool, but morality is the true measure of wealth."
Camille Desmoulins
C
"Money can buy many things, but not a clear conscience."
Camille Desmoulins
J
"Money should serve people, not rule them."
Jean-Paul Marat
"Money is the sinews of war."
Georges Danton
"Money is a means, not an end."
Georges Danton
R
"Money is a means, not an end."
Robespierre
O
"Money is power, and power is corrupting."
Otto von Bismarck
"I have discovered that true wealth is measured in the richness of one's relationships."
Marie Antoinette
N
"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
Napoleon Bonaparte
O
"A man who has a hole in his soul cannot be repaired by money."
Otto von Bismarck
J
"Money that flows from suffering is blood, not currency."
Jean-Paul Marat
R
"Money is the root of political corruption."
Robespierre
C
"The money we accumulate is merely the record of value we have extracted from others' labor."
Camille Desmoulins
L
"The accumulation of wealth without wisdom is the accumulation of troubles."
Louis XVI
L
"Money is a tool of necessity, not a measure of worth."
Louis XVI