Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Money

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

France, Anatole

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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Rolland, Romain

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

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

Jonathan Swift

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Asnas, Max

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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 is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

Jackson, Glenda

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Jane Austen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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 can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Ney, Richard

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Plutarch

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Fielding, Henry

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

45.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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

Chanel, Coco

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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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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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