Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Money

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Chanel, Coco

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

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

Bowen, Ezra

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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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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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

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

22.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

24.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Katharine Whitehorn

27.

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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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Fields, W. C.

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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

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

Austen, Jane

34.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Seneca

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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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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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.