Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Money

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hudnick, Gittel

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

10.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

14.

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

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

17.

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

Chandler, Raymond

18.

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

19.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

20.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

21.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

22.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

23.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

24.

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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

28.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

29.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

30.

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

Wilson, Earl

31.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis, Joe E.

40.

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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

42.

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

Brown, Hobart

43.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.