Motivational Quotes

Money

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

- Greeley, Horace

Best Quotes about Money

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

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Chanel, Coco

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

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

Spader, James

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Chandler, Raymond

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mike Tatum

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Sir Thomas More

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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 an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Fulghum, Robert