Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Brown, Les

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Juvenal

10.

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

Edith Wharton

11.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

12.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

17.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Asnas, Max

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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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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.

22.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Leo Rosten

24.

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

25.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

26.

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

Plato

27.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

28.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Twain, Mark

30.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

31.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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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

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Jefferson, Thomas

36.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Ovid

38.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

41.

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

42.

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

Ward, Artemus

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

Davenport, Rita

44.

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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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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig