Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Money

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Proverb, Yiddish

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Voltaire

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Seneca

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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

11.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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.

20.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Juvenal

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

Luther, Martin

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

Brown, Les

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

26.

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

29.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

32.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.