Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

Earle, Bill

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

Brown, Hobart

10.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

11.

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

Clark, Frank A.

12.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

13.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

14.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

15.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

18.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

19.

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

Adams, Joey

20.

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

21.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Brown, Les

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

27.

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

Groucho Marx

28.

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

29.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

30.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

31.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

32.

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

Ruskin, John

33.

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

34.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

35.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

36.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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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.

38.

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

Seneca

39.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

40.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

41.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

42.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

43.

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

Bowen, Ezra

44.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

46.

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

Lemmon, Jack

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

49.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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