Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Money

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Ney, Richard

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

e e cummings

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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

Ken Hakuta

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fulghum, Robert

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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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

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

Edith Wharton

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Sir Thomas More

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

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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

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

Carson, Johnny

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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.

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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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

Plutarch

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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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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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.