Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Money

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

Rebecca Johnson

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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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.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Ernest Haskins

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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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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 is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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

Alexander, Scott

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Lucian

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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

Collier, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Witkin, Georgia

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.