Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

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

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

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Bible

12.

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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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

15.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Groucho Marx

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Benjamin Franklin

26.

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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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

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

Clark, Frank A.

32.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

33.

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

Lemmon, Jack

34.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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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

36.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

42.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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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 is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.