Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm of persons."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I wish I had saved more money when I was young."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
Edith Wharton
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"People will buy anything that is one to a customer."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Hemingway said that money ruins as many people as it helps."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Hemingway noted that the rich are different, but not in ways that matter much."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Money is a kind of beautiful thing. Sometimes it brings out the worst in us and sometimes the best."
John Steinbeck
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"The rich are different from you and me, and this difference lies in their capacity for self-deception."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Money is only important insofar as it allows us to live without fear."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Money is the root of all progress, yet the source of endless suffering."
Theodore Dreiser
"The wealthy sleep soundly, not from peace of mind, but from moral anesthesia."
Theodore Dreiser
"The pursuit of wealth is often the flight from inner poverty."
Theodore Dreiser
"The poor dream of wealth; the wealthy dream of peace."
Theodore Dreiser
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"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
Edith Wharton
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"The only way to understand people is through their love of money."
Edith Wharton
"Money is a means, not an end."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Money speaks a language that all nations understand."
Theodore Dreiser
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"In the modern world, money is the only power that matters."
Sinclair Lewis
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"The pursuit of wealth often impoverishes the spirit."
Sinclair Lewis
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"Money is a tool, not a destination."
Sinclair Lewis
"Money is a beautiful thing, but it is also a tyrant, if you let it be."
Willa Cather
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root."
Louisa May Alcott
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"The rich are different from you and me."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The very rich because they possess and enjoy early, and to that perhaps we owe the phenomenon that the very rich are different from you and me."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Money may be the root of much evil, but it is also the root of much human striving."
Theodore Dreiser
"The pursuit of wealth can become a form of madness."
Theodore Dreiser
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"I have always been afraid of banks but more afraid of not having money in them."
Edith Wharton
"Money is a tool, not a master."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Money cannot buy happiness or love."
James Fenimore Cooper