Motivational Quotes

Money

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Evan Esar

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

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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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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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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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.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Voltaire

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Davenport, Rita

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Karbo, Joe

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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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

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Rolland, Romain

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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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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.

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

Bible

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

Carson, Johnny

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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