Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- e e cummings

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Henry Fielding

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

Clark, Frank A.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Jane Austen

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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.

11.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Chanel, Coco

14.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

18.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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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

20.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

21.

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

Jackson, Glenda

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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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

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

27.

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

France, Anatole

28.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

29.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

30.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Lucian

33.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

34.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

35.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Karbo, Joe

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

40.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

42.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

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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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.