Motivational Quotes

Money

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

- Hudnick, Gittel

Best Quotes about Money

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

Fields, W. C.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Bible

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

10.

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

11.

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

Vaughan, Bill

12.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Benjamin Franklin

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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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

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

Lynn Johnston

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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

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

Wilde, Stuart

24.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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

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

Orben, Robert

28.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Earle, Bill

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Ford, Henry

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.