Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Rolland, Romain

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

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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.

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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 ?

Horace

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

Rebecca Johnson

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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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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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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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

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

Plutarch

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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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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Bodie, Walford

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Voltaire

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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

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

Orben, Robert

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.