Motivational Quotes

Money

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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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.

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Starr, Roger

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

32.

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

Bible

33.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Evan Esar

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.