Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Money

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Ney, Richard

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

Youngman, Henny

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

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

Jonathan Swift

11.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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

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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

15.

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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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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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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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

21.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

23.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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

35.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

38.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

39.

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

Kin Hubbard

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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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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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.