Quotes and Sayings About Money
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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!
-- A. P. Herbert -
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
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As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Money has no moral opinions.
-- Abraham PolonskySource : "Fictional character: Joe Morse". "Force of Evil", 1948.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
-- Adam Smith -
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
-- Adam Smith -
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A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.
-- Adi Da -
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
-- Adriana Lima -
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
-- Agatha Christie -
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
-- Agnes Smedley -
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
-- Al Bernstein -
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
-- Al FrankenSource : "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Book by Al Franken, September 2003.
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They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven't changed. The only difference between being eccentric and being nuts is the number of security boxes you own.
-- Al McGuire -
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
-- Alan Alda -
If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
-- Alan Alda -
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
-- Alan AyckbournSource : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.9, Grove Press
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
-- Alan Paton -
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 -
So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
-- Alan Watts -
But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.
-- Albert Camus -
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Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.
-- Albert Camus -
Having money is a way of being free of money.
-- Albert Camus -
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
-- Albert Camus -
Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.
-- Albert Einstein -
Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
-- Albert J. Nock