Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Benjamin Franklin

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

10.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mike Tatum

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

17.

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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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 large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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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.

30.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

33.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Earle, Bill

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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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

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Voltaire

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David