Little Money Quotes

• It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Happiness, Leadership, Money

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Money, Business

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.251, Printed for H. Colborn

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Ambition, Focus

  Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Money, Littles, Wealth

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• No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet

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• Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

  Rolf Potts

  Fire, Order, Survival

  Rolf Potts (2003). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own.

  Sojourner Truth

  Writing, Men, Rights

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.

  Elizabeth Arden

  Business, Littles

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• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Long, Waiting

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• It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Running, Business

  "The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 657, 2006.

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• These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little money, get yourself started... but you mean to go back! Who would want to stay? Cold, wet, miserable; terrible food, dreadful newspapers - who would want to stay? In a place where you are never welcomed, only tolerated. Just tolerated. Like you are an animal finally house-trained.

  Zadie Smith

  Country, Mean, Animal

  Zadie Smith (2001). “White Teeth”, p.413, Penguin UK

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• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

  Arnold Bennett

  Money, Littles, Amusing

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• I don’t think we’ll get rid of schools any time soon, certainly not in my lifetime, but if we’re going to change what’s rapidly becoming a disaster of ignorance, we need to realize that the institution “schools” very well, but it does not “educate”; that’s inherent in the design of the thing. It’s not the fault of bad teachers or too little money spent. It’s just impossible for education and schooling to be the same thing.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Ignorance

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.28, New Society Publishers

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• I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Silly, Beer

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.122, Collector's Library

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• When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life. Have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around that you call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.

  Steve Jobs

  Wall, Growing Up, Fun

  "Steve Jobs in Pbs Doc: You Can Change the World" by Josh Lowensohn, www.cnet.com. November 02, 2011.

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• If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Real, Work, Yield

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.

  Anais Nin

  Fall, Winter, June

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• From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Hands, Littles

  "The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living".

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• My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

  O. J. Simpson

  Football, Son, Nfl

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

  Howard Schultz

  Thinking, People, Training

  "Howard Schultz, CEO, Starbucks". Interview with Andrew Stevens, edition.cnn.com. December 28, 2007.

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• We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Doctrine, Littles

  The Guardian, November 20, 1991.

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• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  Vera Farmiga

  Home, Mean, Independent

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• When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Money

  Desiderius Erasmus' letter to Jacob Batt, April 12, 1500.

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• There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

  Will Durant

  Money, Eugenics, Age

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• The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

  Robert Breault

  Honesty, Treasure, Littles

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