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Money Quotes



"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."


"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."



"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets."


"Funny how money speaks even more loudly than morals in this beautiful, superficial material world."


"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."


"I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money."


"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."


"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."


"There's a correlation between the number of digits on a man's bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for."


"The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord."


"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."


"The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief."


"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants."



"Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it."


"The only thing money really buys?...Space. A bigger house, a bigger car, a larger hotel room. First-class plane tickets. But it doesn't even buy comfort. No one complains more than the rich and entitled. Comfort, security, ease. None of them come with money."



"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."


"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."



"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."


"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."


"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
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