Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Money

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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

Brown, Les

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

12.

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

14.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

15.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

16.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

17.

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

18.

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

Seneca

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Asnas, Max

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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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.

28.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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

30.

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

Davenport, Rita

31.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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

41.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

43.

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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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

45.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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