M Quotes
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“Money is like a river. It flows where the conditions are conducive to its flow.”
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.... I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art.”
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
“Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other. If you are one whose money speaks of protection and hoarding, you will find yourself involved with others whose money speaks the same language. You will be staring at each other with hooded eyes and closed fists and suspicion will be your common value. If your money speaks of sharing, you will find yourself among people who want their money to speak the language of sharing, and your world will be filled with possibility.”
Source: Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life
“Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.”
“Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.”
“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”
“Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.”
“Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
Source: A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran
“Money is like lust. When you don’t have enough of it, you want more. When you satisfy it, you still thirst for more.”
Source: Businessman With An Affliction
“Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”
“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
“Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.”
“Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.”
“Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it”
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”
“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.”
“Money is like muck, not good unless spread.”
Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England
“Money!...Is like that of a tyranny...From necessity, one must submit to its arbitrary rein...While secretly despising and holding it in absolute contempt and aversion!”
“Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.”
“Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.”
Source: Rabbit is Rich
“Money is like water, it’s everywhere. It’s in the ground, it’s in the sky, it’s in the air… it’s everywhere. If you’d like, your wallet or account can be like a rainwater pool where the money is filled up and always flowing. And where you can just put a cup in that pool and drink from it whenever you like and you always have more than enough money because the pool is always full. And there’s a prosperous ecosystem where the money clouds are always passing by and pouring more money in there. That’s a good relationship with money.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment.”
Source: The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“Money is made by sitting, not trading.”
“Money is made only from time well converted.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Money is made out of time.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“Money is math and the numbers continuously add in my favor.”
Source: Don't Feel Stuck with Money!
“Money is mathematical figures on a computer screen. It's not the definition of your self-worth or the value of your success.”
“Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.”
“Money is merely a reward for solving problems.”
“Money is minted in the factory of greed, sustainability grows in the garden of simplicity.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Money is misunderstood. The fact is if you want to be successful - the money will follow you. If you are a doctor, something else will follow you. If you are successful there is an accompaniment. If your goal is just to make money you won't succeed. Money is a commodity to use, not to be dictated by.”
“Money is money, after all. But we don’t see it that way. Depending on how we get it, we treat it differently. Money is not naked; it is wrapped in an emotional shroud.”
Source: The Art of Thinking Clearly
“Money is more trouble than it is worth.”
“Money is much more exciting than anything it buys.”
“Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.”
“Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.”
“Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefended. I send it to conquer and take currency prisoner and bring it back to me.”
Source: Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life
“Money is my slave. I am not a slave to it.”
“Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.”
“Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.”
“Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you”
“Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.”
Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch
“Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.”
Source: Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
“Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.”
“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.”
“Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.”