Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Money

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

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

Ernest Haskins

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Spader, James

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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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

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Wilson, Earl

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George