Motivational Quotes

Money

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Money

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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.

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.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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.

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

Jane Austen

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Lennon, John

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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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

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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

Groucho Marx

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

Fields, W. C.

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clark, Frank A.

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