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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Benjamin Franklin

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Jane Austen

10.

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

Rebecca Johnson

11.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

13.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

19.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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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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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Brown, Hobart

30.

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

Graham, Billy

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

33.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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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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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Benjamin Franklin