Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"Money without purpose is empty."
Langston Hughes
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"Money is only power if you value what it can buy."
Richard Wright
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"Economic necessity does not always produce happiness."
James Baldwin
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"Money can buy many things, but it cannot buy peace of mind or true contentment."
Zora Neale Hurston
"Money is neither evil nor salvation; it is frozen time and possibility."
Ralph Ellison
"Money follows value; create value and money will follow."
Ralph Ellison
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"The banks are fine institutions, but they are not fine enough."
John Steinbeck
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"Money is the root of all kinds of evil, and yet it is such a useful root."
John Steinbeck
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"Money is the root of all evil, but it is also the root of civilization."
Pearl S. Buck
"Money is a tool, and like all tools, its value depends on how it is used."
Ralph Ellison
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"Money isn't everything, but knowing how to use it wisely is a kind of freedom."
Langston Hughes
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"I have learned that money is a form of power that shapes every human interaction."
Richard Wright
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"Money is not the root of all evil—lack of money is."
Pearl S. Buck
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"All the good things are expensive; all the bad things are cheap."
John Steinbeck
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"Money is the root of nothing but itself."
William Faulkner
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"Money is a tool, not a measure of a person's worth."
Langston Hughes
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"Money cannot buy happiness, but opportunity can create it."
Langston Hughes
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"You either make money or you don't. It's that simple."
Ernest Hemingway
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"That's the difference between having money and not having it."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The rich are different."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of almost nothing else if you had it not."
James Baldwin
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Money is the root of all evil, but the lack of money is the root of all misery."
Pearl S. Buck
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"People will buy anything that is one to a customer."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The poverty of the present time is not the poverty of the poor, but the poverty of the rich."
John Steinbeck
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"Wealth is a sacred trust."
Ernest Hemingway
"Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant."
Theodore Dreiser
"Money can't buy happiness."
Theodore Dreiser
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"The rich are different from you and me."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The very rich are different from ordinary men and women."
F. Scott Fitzgerald