Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Money

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Fulghum, Robert

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Rebecca Johnson

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

10.

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

France, Anatole

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Spader, James

21.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

28.

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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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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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

32.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

34.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Ney, Richard

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

40.

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

Sir Thomas More

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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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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Ruskin, John

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis