Motivational Quotes

Money

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Money

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Greeley, Horace

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Fields, W. C.

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Plutarch

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Lynn Johnston

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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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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

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

Lemmon, Jack

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

Starr, Roger

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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

Orben, Robert

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Karbo, Joe

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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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

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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

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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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.