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

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Earle, Bill

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

Brown, Les

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Mike Tatum

10.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

12.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

13.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

15.

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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 you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

France, Anatole

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

23.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Ford, Henry

32.

After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Benjamin Franklin

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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.

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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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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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin