Motivational Quotes

Money

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Bible

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Plutarch

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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

Jane Austen

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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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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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

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Juvenal

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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

Edith Wharton

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Voltaire

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry