Money Quotes

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

13074 quotes

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"Money is a tool; to mistake the tool for the goal is the folly of fools."
Locke, John
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"Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce."
Hume, David
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"Money is a means to an end, not an end in itself."
Averroes
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"A person who loves money shall never be satisfied with money."
Maimonides
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"Greed diminishes as understanding increases."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Money is the sinews of action, but it is not the soul."
Descartes, René
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"To possess wealth without wisdom is to carry water in a broken vessel."
Avicenna
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"Money is a tool, not a master; serve it wisely or it will enslave you."
Al-Ghazali
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"The rich man who is stingy is poorer than the poor man who is generous."
Al-Ghazali
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"Money is not the root of all evil; the love of money is."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Money is necessary but not sufficient for happiness."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Wealth without virtue is a curse upon the soul."
Averroes
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"Excessive wealth corrupts the soul more surely than poverty ever could."
Averroes
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"The pursuit of excessive wealth blinds us to the pursuit of excellence."
Averroes
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"The sinews of war are infinite money."
Cicero
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"Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is a great inconvenience."
Cicero
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"The pursuit of money without purpose is the pursuit of shadows and mirages."
Avicenna
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"The man who loses his wealth is not hurt thereby; but rather he who craves it."
Epictetus
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"Wealth is the test of a man's character."
Seneca
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"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Seneca
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"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."
Seneca
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"Riches serve a wise man but command a fool."
Seneca
"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but he who hankers after more."
Marcus Aurelius
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"A lot of people lose money in a landslide and end up in heaven."
Augustine of Hippo
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"Material wealth without wisdom is a burden that weighs down the soul."
Averroes
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"The profit of the merchant means nothing if it corrupts the soul of his community."
Averroes
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"It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but he whose desires are too great."
Cicero
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"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."
Cicero
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"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Seneca
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"Such a course is sure to lead a man to poverty; how far this will go, cannot be foreseen."
Seneca