Motivational Quotes

Money

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Money

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

O'Malley, Austin

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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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

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Traub, Marvin

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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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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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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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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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Collier, Robert

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spader, James

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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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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Orben, Robert

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Good management is better than good income.