Motivational Quotes

Money

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

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Best Quotes about Money

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

Evan Esar

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Fielding, Henry

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

11.

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

Chanel, Coco

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Edith Wharton

18.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

G. K. Chesterton

21.

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

Getty, J. Paul

22.

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

Wilde, Stuart

23.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

24.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

28.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

29.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

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

Luther, Martin

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

36.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

37.

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

Traub, Marvin

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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

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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.

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

43.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Jonathan Swift

45.

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

Groucho Marx

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John