Motivational Quotes

Money

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Money

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

G. K. Chesterton

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Collier, Robert

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Edith Wharton

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

Ovid

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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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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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

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

e e cummings

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

Carson, Johnny

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

46.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.