Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

- Lapham, Lewis H.

Best Quotes about Money

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

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.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Evan Esar

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Brown, Les

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Luther, Martin

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

Plutarch

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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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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.