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

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Themistocles

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

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

Carson, Johnny

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Wilde, Stuart

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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.

Jane Austen

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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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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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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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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Sophocles

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

39.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

40.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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.

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

Fields, W. C.

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.