Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Plutarch

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

10.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

11.

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

Bumper Sticker

12.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

13.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

14.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Jonathan Swift

17.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

18.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

19.

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

Propertius, Sextus

20.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

21.

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

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

Juvenal

23.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

28.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Henry Fielding

35.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

37.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

40.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

45.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

46.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Voltaire

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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