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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘money’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“It’s very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.” -David Bowie
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“A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.” -Jesse Jackson
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“Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.” -Terry Pratchett
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“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.” -J. K. Rowling
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“Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.” -Sallust
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“Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.” -Sophocles
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“To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.” -Mason Cooley
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“The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.” -Gertrude Stein
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“You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin’ on, I then got the money, and gone.” -Dolly Parton
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“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.” -George Santayana
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“People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it’s jazz music-it’s not easy for them to get to it. I don’t want them ever to feel that I’m taking their presence lightly.” -Wynton Marsalis
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“I’m not really interested in making money.” -Steven Spielberg
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“I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.” -Larry Bird
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“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” -Agatha Christie
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“We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children’s life. It may save someone you love. And it’s very important.” -Jim Valvano
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“But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That’s inevitable. Where there’s money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.” -David Millar
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“I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around.” -Li Na
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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.” -Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.” -Julia Cameron
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“I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.” -Arthur Godfrey
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“Money and women. They’re two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn’t do for anything else. Same with money.” -Satchel Paige
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“Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.” -Thomas Huxley
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“The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.” -Alice Walker
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“I don’t understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.” -Gore Vidal
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“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” -Edwin Land
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“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.” -James A. Garfield
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“My goal isn’t to make money, it’s to try and survive and make a point.” -Marilyn Manson
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“I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.” -Lord Acton
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“Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that’s a bonus, and if you don’t, you still won’t hate going to work.” -Jeff Foxworthy
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“But men are so full of greed today, they’ll sell anything for a little piece of money.” -Little Richard
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“Almost anyone can be an author the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.” -A. A. Milne
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“I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country.” -Harry Houdini
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“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.” -Virginia Woolf
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“Certainly there are things in life that money can’t buy, but it’s very funny – Did you ever try buying then without money?” -Ogden Nash
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“Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
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“When an actor has money he doesn’t send letters, he sends telegrams.” -Anton Chekhov
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“One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.” -E. M. Forster
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“The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It’s about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.” -Ziggy Marley
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“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.” -Louis L’Amour
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“Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.” -Dan Quayle
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“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” -David Lee Roth
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“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.” -Stephen King
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“The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” -Ray Kroc
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“I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.” -Thomas Fuller
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“We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it’s a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.” -Marianne Williamson
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“The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I’ve always been a size 14 to 16, I don’t care about clothes, I’d rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.” -Adele
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“Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.” -Cesar Chavez
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“One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.” -Indira Gandhi
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“Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.” -Imran Khan
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“The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.” -Samuel Butler
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“The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.” -Jim Carrey
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“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.” -Horace
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“There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.” -Mary Kay Ash
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“Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.” -Brian Tracy
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“Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.” -Andrew Jackson
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“I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.” -Ben Stein
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“Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.” -Jane Austen
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“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” -Steve Martin
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“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.” -Bette Davis
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“There are a handful of people whom money won’t spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.” -Horace Greeley
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“You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“I have grown up alone. I’ve taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.” -Ingrid Bergman
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“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” -Bo Derek
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“You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?” -Chris Tucker
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“If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.” -James Allen
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“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
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“It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.” -Donald Trump
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“Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo – and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.” -William S. Burroughs
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“False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.” -Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” -Joan Rivers
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“I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.” -George W. Bush
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“The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.” -Henry Rollins
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“I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don’t return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn’t want that to happen, would you.” -Andy Rooney
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“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.” -William Penn
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“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.” -James A. Baldwin
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“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.” -Joe Frazier
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“He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.” -Jose Marti
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“Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.” -Woody Allen
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“You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“I’d asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, ‘Well, what do you love most?’ That’s how I started painting money.” -Andy Warhol
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“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.” -Moliere
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“The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.” -Jane Bryant Quinn
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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
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“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.” -William Blake
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“Success isn’t measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.” -Mike Ditka
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“The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.” -William Jennings Bryan
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“A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.” -Carter Glass
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“Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don’t they?” -Hillary Clinton
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“Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.” -Orson Welles
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“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.” -Francis Bacon
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“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.” -Johnny Cash
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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” -Roger Babson
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“The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.” -Charles Dickens
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“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.” -Karl Marx
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“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.” -Tom Hopkins
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“I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money’s sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it’s just about a number. It’s never been anything I understood.” -Kevin Bacon
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“The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.” -Brendan Behan
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“There’s so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.” -Phyllis Diller
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“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” -George Best
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“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.” -Marlene Dietrich
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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.” -Evan Esar
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“You don’t appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.” -Emo Philips
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“Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn’t willing to.” -Bill Gates
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“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.” -Paulo Coelho
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“If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.” -Sun Tzu
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“I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, ‘What for?’ I said, ‘I’m going to buy some sugar.’” -Steven Wright
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“Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.” -Mike Tyson
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“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.” -Angelina Jolie
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“If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.” -Susan B. Anthony
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“There was one thing my daddy wouldn’t tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can’t buy, is how to be able to treat…
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“Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.” -Charles…
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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“I’ve seen the ticket, and I still can’t believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don’t hit the floor.” -Judy Garland
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“It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.” -Joel Osteen
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“It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.” -W. C. Fields
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“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It’s really the first time I’ve thought about the future and what it could be.” -Johnny Depp
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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
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“Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members’ paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.” -Mitt Romney
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“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.” -Billy Graham
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“I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.” -Yogi Berra
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“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.” -Ray Davies
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“One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.” -Henry Ford
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“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” -Ayn Rand
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“Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.” -Will Rogers
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“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.” -Voltaire
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“A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.” -Ron Paul
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“You reach a point where you don’t work for money.” -Walt Disney
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“I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money’s the problem. But drugs are just drugs.” -Jerry Garcia
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“Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.” -Richard M. DeVos
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“This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.” -Clint Eastwood
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“The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.” -Alan Watts
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“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” -James Madison
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“Money without brains is always dangerous.” -Napoleon Hill
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“Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.” -Peter Drucker
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“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.” -Charles R. Swindoll
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“I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.” -Warren Buffett
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“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.” -Tupac Shakur
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“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” -Douglas Adams
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“What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.” -Charlie Sheen
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“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner.” -Michael Symon
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“Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.” -Ann Landers
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“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.” -Albert Camus
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“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” -Nelson Mandela
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