Motivational Quotes

Money

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Money

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Donald Trump

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

11.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

12.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

13.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

14.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

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

Ovid

16.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

17.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

19.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

20.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

23.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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

Chanel, Coco

25.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Ibsen, Henrik

28.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

29.

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

30.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

31.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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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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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

36.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

37.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

39.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

40.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

41.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

43.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

44.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

45.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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