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What Money Can't Buy

The things that matter most have never been for sale — and the richest people are often the last to realize that.

39 quotes found

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

—Olumide SoyomboAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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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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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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Disaster capitalism's preferred conditions: people are frightened, confused, and far from home.

—Naomi KleinAuthor & Activist

Contemporary ERA • North America

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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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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

—Honoré de BalzacNovelist

Industrial Age 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 king's strength is his army. The army's strength is the treasury. The treasury's strength is the people.

—KautilyaPhilosopher & Economist

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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No excellent company can be created without excellent culture and excellent people.

—Zhang RuiminAuthor & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • East Asia

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Even if you have the wealth of Karun, you will eventually go to the grave with nothing.

—Saadi ShiraziPoet & Writer

Medieval ERA • MENA

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A writer must have a place to write, a pen, paper, a table, and solitude.

—Ursula K. Le GuinAuthor

Late Modern ERA • North America

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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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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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Austerity is not an economic policy; it's a political choice.

—Naomi KleinAuthor & Activist

Contemporary ERA • North America

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My hands are a tool. They help me to think.

—El AnatsuiSculptor & Artist

Contemporary ERA • West Africa

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With every passing year, the education you have becomes more valuable.

—Lee Kuan YewScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Southeast Asia

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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 penny saved is a penny earned.

—Benjamin FranklinPolymath & Statesman

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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Best of all is water; but gold, like a blazing fire in the night, outshines all possessions.

—PindarLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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