Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"Money is a tool, not a measure of human worth or success."
Albert Bandura
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"The pursuit of wealth without the pursuit of understanding leads only to an empty abundance."
Christiaan Huygens
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"Money follows those who create value."
Ivan Pavlov
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"Money is stored potential energy."
Ivan Pavlov
"Money is the most effective reinforcer of human behavior."
B.F. Skinner
"Money matters not for itself, but for what it can reinforce in human behavior and society."
B.F. Skinner
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"Money spent on research is money spent on unlocking the nature of existence itself."
Ivan Pavlov
"Money is a form of feedback, nothing more and nothing less."
B.F. Skinner
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."
Florence Nightingale
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"Money, like all rewards, works through the same laws of conditioning as all other stimuli."
Ivan Pavlov
"Money is merely a conditioned reinforcer that has become valuable through our cultural practices."
B.F. Skinner
"Money spent on prevention is infinitely more valuable than wealth spent on treatment."
Edward Jenner
"Money devoted to prevention is an investment in the future of humanity."
Edward Jenner
"Money is a tool, not a measure of worth."
B.F. Skinner
"Money follows value creation, not the reverse."
B.F. Skinner
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"Money is a domain of descriptions that generates social structures."
Humberto Maturana
"Money spent on prevention is money returned tenfold in human flourishing and happiness."
Edward Jenner
"Money is useless on a dead planet."
James Lovelock
"Money spent on ecological restoration is the best investment possible."
James Lovelock
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"Money is merely a tool for funding the pursuit of truth."
James Watson
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"Money is congealed human effort and intention."
Humberto Maturana
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"Money should fund curiosity, not constrain it."
Francis Crick
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"Money follows discovery, never the reverse."
Francis Crick
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"Money cannot buy happiness, but it can buy the freedom to think clearly."
Richard Dawkins
"Money without purpose is a burden."
George Washington Carver
"Money is a means to service, not an end in itself."
George Washington Carver
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"Money is not the source of happiness, but lack of it is a source of misery."
Wright Brothers
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"Money is a tool, not a master."
Wright Brothers
"Money should serve knowledge, never the reverse."
Gregor Mendel
"The question that confronts us is not whether we can afford to spend money on conservation - it is whether we can afford not to."
Rachel Carson