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Quotes About Money

I hope to risk things all my life." "Oh, Margaret, most dangerous." "But after all," she continued with a smile, "there's never any great risk as long as you have money." "Oh, shame! What a shocking speech!" "Money pads the edges of things," said Miss Schlegel. "God help those who have none.
~ E.M. Forster
She never saw it again. Day and night the river flows down into England, day after day the sun retreats into the Welsh mountains, and the tower chimes: 'See the Conquering Hero.' But the Wilcoxes have no part in the place, nor in any place. It is not their names that recur in the parish register. It is not their ghosts that sigh among the alders at evening. They have swept into the valley and swept out of it, leaving a little dust and a little money behind.
~ E.M. Forster
You and I and the Wilcoxes stand upon money as upon islands. It is so firm beneath our feet that we forget its very existence. It's only when we see some one near us tottering that we realise all that an independent income means. Last night, when we were talking up here round the fire, I began to think that the very soul of the world is economic, and that the lowest abyss is not the absence of love, but the absence of coin.
~ E.M. Forster
Her idea of business— "Henry, why do people who have enough money try to get more money?" Her idea of politics— "I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars
~ E.M. Forster
You only care about the things that you can use, and therefore arrange them in the following order: Money, supremely useful; intellect, rather useful; imagination, of no use at all.
~ E.M. Forster
Money: give Mr Bast money, and don't bother about his ideals. He'll pick those up for himself.
~ E.M. Forster
there's never any great risk as long as you have money." "Oh, shame! What a shocking speech!" "Money pads the edges of things," said Miss Schlegel. "God help those who have none.
~ E.M. Forster
No man's credit is as good as his money.
~ E.W. Howe
We've got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we've got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don't concern yourself with the money. Be of service. Build. Work. Dream. Create. Do this and you'll find that there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
~ Earl Nightingale
Success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to our service.
~ Earl Nightingale
Don't concern yourself with the money. Be of service ... build ... work ... dream ... create! Do this and you'll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
~ Earl Nightingale
Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
~ Earl Warren
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
~ Earl Wilson
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
~ Earl Wilson
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.
~ Earl Wilson
The transformation of newspapers and news channels into corporations which made them addicts of profit (and therefore rating and online clicks), and that's eventually left less space for boring truths and facts, couldn't have been demonstrated more bluntly. . It was as if Trump were reminding the press of the old journalistic adage: "Follow the money.
~ Ece Temelkuran
If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
~ Ed Markey
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~ Ed McBain
The Sherpas were such a hard-working, good-natured group. Sometimes I thought they'd been born with permanent smiles. Ang Tsering explained their life in simple terms. "Sherpas have no money, but we need no money. We never rich, but life is good to us.
~ Ed Webster
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
~ Edmund White
Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
~ Edna O'Brien
Money attracts because it gives us the means to command the labor and service and finally the lives of others--human or otherwise.
~ Edward Abbey
One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
~ Edward Abbey