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Quotes about Money


Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

George Robert Gissing

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Louis Agassiz

Whenever people say "we mustn't be sentimental", you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic", they mean they are going to make money out of it. -Brigid Brophy.

Brigid Brophy

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.

Henry H Haskins

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

Charles Fillmore

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

Finley Peter Dunne

Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.

Lydia Anonymous

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Lydia Anonymous

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Lydia Anonymous

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is—I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Daniel Defoe

The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.

Eric Hoffer

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Thomas Sowell

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

G. K. Chesterton

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known—that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money—then make money with money—then make lots of money with lots of money.

Paul Erdman

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.

Mike Gill

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Roger Starr

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

James Dale Davidson

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

John Barrymore

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Victoria Billings

Money isn't everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Rita Davenport

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Sir John Egan

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