Money Quotes - Page 8

• Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Honesty, Business

  Louisa May Alcott (1940). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys; a Sequel to "Little Women"”

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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fear, Animal Intelligence, Long

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Littles, Wealth, Protection

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• Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Husband, Years

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• The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Inspiring, Appreciation

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

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• More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Suffering, Problem

  "Consumer's Edge". San Antonio Express-News, September 14, 2007.

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• When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Strong, Doors

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• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  Ted Turner

  War, Blood, Want

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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, Literature, Way

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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• I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Motivation, Needs

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• Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Inspirational, Hard, Making Money

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• If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Inspiring, Stupid

  Benjamin Franklin (1848). “The Way to Wealth”, p.4

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• The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Inspiring, Stupid

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• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  Damon Runyon

  Long, Trying, May

  A Very Honorable Guy" (1929)

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• It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, Balance

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• But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

  George MacDonald

  Friendship, Sweet, Powerful

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.451, e-artnow

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• A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

  Michael Douglas

  Stupid, Greed, Together

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• God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

  Austin O'Malley

  Funny, Kindness, Wealth

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• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  John Ruskin

  Purpose, Literature

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• What's a soup kitchen?

  Paris Hilton

  Funny, Inspiring, Stupid

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• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  Donald Trump

  Funny, Inspiring, Motivation

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.48, Random House

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• I don't care how rich and successful a man is. He's nothing without an education.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Successful, Men, Care

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• Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Inspiring, Thinking, Use

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