Motivational Quotes

Money

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Money

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Ovid

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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Starr, Roger

10.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

11.

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

12.

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

Quant, Mary

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

Proverb, Jewish

14.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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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.

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 often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

22.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

23.

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

Austen, Jane

24.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

28.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

33.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Voltaire

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

Ward, Artemus

40.

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

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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