MONEY QUOTES II

quotations about money

Money quote

MUGGER: Your money or your life. (long, awkward pause) Look bud. I said, your money or your life.
JACK: I'm thinking it over!

JACK BENNY

The Jack Benny Program

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The less money lying idle the greater is the dividend.

WALTER BAGEHOT

Lombard Street

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Money is just the poor man's credit card.

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Understanding Media

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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

SOPHOCLES

Antigone

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Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth.

HORACE

Epodi

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It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

LEWIS H. LAPHAM

preamble, Money and Class in America

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It's all about money cause without money you dead
Ain't a damn thing funny
You gotta have a con in this land of milk and honey

GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE

"The Message"


Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Blue Moon

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As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Endymion

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Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

GEORGES BERNANOS

A Diary of My Times

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When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool--for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely--and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Motivated to Succeed

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Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

HENRY FORD

My Life and Work

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If you have a problem you can solve by throwing money at it, you don't have a very interesting problem.

ANNE LAMOTT

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

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That money talks
I'll not deny
I heard it once:
It said, 'Goodbye'.

RICHARD ARMOUR

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers

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Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal wlth one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?

AYN RAND

Atlas Shrugged

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We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

DAVE RAMSEY

The Total Money Makeover

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The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Having money now--a lot of money--I knew one thing for sure: If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you'd be miserable poor. You'd be miserable, just without the consolation of quality towels and thirty-dollar cocktails.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

HENRY FORD

My Life and Work

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