Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"If I had a large sum of money, I would give it away in small portions to many people."
Anton Chekhov
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"Nothing gives a man more liberty than money."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Money cannot buy the soul, though it may rent the body."
William Butler Yeats
"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Samuel Beckett
"Money is a tool for freedom, not a measure of worth."
Samuel Beckett
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"Poverty is a very complicated thing; you must understand it."
Oscar Wilde
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"Money is a concrete thing and can be handled, touched, stacked."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy peace of mind."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Money is a tool; character is the measure of a person."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I'm not overdrawn in my mind. I'm not in debt. What does the word mean?"
James Joyce
"The more you have, the more you want."
Samuel Beckett
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"Money is a strange thing. It makes you do things you wouldn't normally do."
Anton Chekhov
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"The very rich are different from the rest of us; they are more afraid."
Anton Chekhov
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"Money is the root of all evil."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Money measures neither the worth of a man nor the value of a life."
William Butler Yeats
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"Money is not everything, though it is a necessary thing."
Thomas Hardy
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"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy peace of mind."
Thomas Hardy
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"Money is a means, not an end."
Thomas Hardy
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"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy books, which is the same thing."
Oscar Wilde
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"Money is but frozen potential; use it to create change."
James Joyce
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"We are dying from consumption of our own products."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Measure your wealth not by money but by meaningful relationships."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Money is a necessary evil, but it is not everything."
Anne Brontë
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"Wealth without wisdom is a curse."
Anne Brontë
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"Material wealth is fleeting."
Anne Brontë
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"What need you, being come to sense, but fumble in a greasy till?"
William Butler Yeats
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"Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national conduct must be based on it."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Money is merely crystallized human desire and desperation."
Thomas Hardy