So, after "Save money and money will save you," here's my most important
dictum on dollars:  Money is worth only one thing--what you can trade it for.
And you should never--not ever--be afraid to trade it for things that
make you happy, things that can make your life fuller, richer, sweeter.

Money speaks a language everyone understands.  It's a universal provider for
most everything but happiness and a universal passport to most any place but
heaven.  Spend it accordingly:  Because you sure can't take it with you.
You've never seen a Brink's truck following a hearse.
And I'm willing to bet you never will.

Patti LaBelle

To try to extinguish the drive for riches with money is like
trying to quench a fire by pouring butterfat over it.

Hindu proverb

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.

Kent Nerburn

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued.
While there is flesh there is money--or the want of money;
but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Samuel Butler

If people get their attitude toward money straight, it will help
straighten out almost every other area of their lives.

Billy Graham

Money has never made people happy, nor will it; there is nothing in its
nature to produce happiness.  The more of it one has the more one wants.

Benjamin Franklin

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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.
The only real security that a person will have in this world is
a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

It is true that money cannot buy happiness, but it does make it possible
for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

George S. Clason

The money you make will only serve you as well as you serve others.

Duane Alan Hahn

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing,
but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for.
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved,
contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Louisa May Alcott

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way
to keep score.  The real excitement is playing the game.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy;
but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure
that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

George Horace Lorimer

Money can buy you the husk of many things, but not the kernel.  It brings you
food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but
not friends; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Henrik Ibsen