Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Ward, Artemus

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

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Edith Wharton

10.

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

11.

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

Asnas, Max

12.

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

Plato

13.

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

Rebecca Johnson

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

15.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

19.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Austen, Jane

22.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

23.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

24.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Propertius, Sextus

27.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Leo Rosten

29.

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

30.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

32.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Fielding, Henry

35.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

39.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

40.

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

Benjamin Franklin

41.

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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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

43.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

44.

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

Proverb, Japanese

45.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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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.

48.

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

Rolland, Romain

49.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.