Motivational Quotes

Money

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

- Dylan, Bob

Best Quotes about Money

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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

11.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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

Luther, Martin

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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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 the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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 has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Williams, Les

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

Clark, Frank A.

20.

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

Clark, Frank A.

21.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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

Juvenal

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

29.

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

Ney, Richard

30.

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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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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Johnson, Ben

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

41.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

42.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.

44.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

Jonathan Swift

46.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Belloc, Hilaire