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Money Quotes

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

--Francis Bacon

Money makes the man.

--Aristodemus

When money speaks the truth is silent.

--Russian Proverb

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

--Marilyn Monroe

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

--Marilyn Monroe

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

--Marilyn Monroe

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

--Benjamin Franklin

Remember that credit is money.

--Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

--Benjamin Franklin

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

--Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

--Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

--Benjamin Franklin

Time is money.

--Benjamin Franklin

Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.

--William Lowndes

The love of money is the root of all evil.

--The Bible

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

--Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.

--Mark Twain

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

--George Bernard Shaw

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

--Samuel Johnson

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

--Mother Teresa

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

--Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

--Mother Teresa

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to.

--Anonymous

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience and truth may be drowned.

--Anonymous

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.

--Anonymous

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

--Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

--Oscar Wilde

Money can't buy friends, but you can get better class of enemy.

--Spike Millingan

Money is like an arm or a leg - use it or lose it

--Henry Ford

Riches are not from abundance of wordly goods, but from a contented mind.

--Prophet Muhammad

When large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

--Agatha Christie

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

--Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

--Thomas Jefferson

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

--Thomas Jefferson

To have enough is good luck, to have more than enough is harmful. This is true of all things, but especially of money.

--Chuang-Tse

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

--George Carlin

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

--Warren Buffett

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

--Warren Buffett

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