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

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Collier, Robert

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

10.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

12.

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

13.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

14.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

15.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

16.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

17.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

18.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

19.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

21.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

23.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

26.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

27.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

28.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

29.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

31.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

Orben, Robert

33.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

34.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

37.

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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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

39.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Katharine Whitehorn

44.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

45.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

49.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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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