CURATED COLLECTION

Money and Happiness

Money solves the problems that money can solve — the rest of life requires something else entirely.

46 quotes found

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Money is the water we swim in. Most of us don't know we're wet.

—Ayad AkhtarPlaywright & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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The lack of money is the root of all evil.

—Mark TwainNovelist & Humorist

Early Modern ERA • North America

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It's not about money. It's about the people you have, and how you're led.

—Steve JobsEntrepreneur & Inventor

Late Modern ERA • North America

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A penny saved is a penny earned.

—Benjamin FranklinPolymath & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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Money is a tool. It will amplify who you already are.

—Olumide SoyomboAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them.

—Thomas JeffersonPresident

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

—Jane AustenNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be in science, you have to be poor.

—Marie CuriePhysicist & Chemist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

—Gloria SteinemFeminist, Activist & Journalist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

—William ShakespearePlaywright & Poet

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

—Honoré de BalzacNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Luxury is everywhere in proportion to the inequality of fortunes.

—MontesquieuPhilosopher

Enlightenment ERA • Western Europe

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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

—Elizabeth GaskellNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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The value of a man is his price; so much as would be given for the use of his power.

—Thomas HobbesPhilosopher

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Wealth covers great shame.

—Theognis of MegaraElegiac Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

—Sholem AleichemAuthor

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Innovation requires trust before it requires investment.

—Victor HwangTheorist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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A person who does not love his work, does not find joy.

—Abai QunanbaiulyPoet, Composer & Philosopher

Industrial Age ERA • Central Asia

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All their women from childhood are accustomed to spinning cotton and weaving cloth.

—Leo AfricanusDiplomat & Author

Renaissance ERA • North Africa

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I steal no rice, nor do I plant it. I just live.

—RyokanPoet

Enlightenment ERA • East Asia

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