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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• You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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

  Michael Douglas

  Stupid, Greed, Together

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• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Greatest Wealth, Insightful

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.305

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• Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

  Samuel Butler

  Order, Long, Brain

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.57, The Floating Press

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• There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life And Love, Business

  Andrew Carnegie (1968). “Miscellaneous Writings of Andrew Carnegie”

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

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Littles, Wealth, Protection

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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