Motivational Quotes

Money

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

- Amis, Martin

Best Quotes about Money

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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.

Gibran, Kahlil

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

28.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

35.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.