Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Money

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Witkin, Georgia

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

10.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

11.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

16.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Barrymore, John

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Sir Henry Taylor

29.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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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.

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

Wilde, Stuart

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

34.

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

Mike Tatum

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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

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Davenport, Rita

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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 is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

45.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Ken Hakuta

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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.