Motivational Quotes

Money

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Bible

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Plutarch

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

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

10.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

11.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

12.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

13.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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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

15.

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

Fields, W. C.

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

18.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

19.

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

20.

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

Brown, Hobart

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

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

24.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

25.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

27.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

28.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

29.

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

30.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

31.

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

Clark, Frank A.

32.

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

33.

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

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

Barrymore, John

35.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

40.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

44.

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

45.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Sir Thomas More

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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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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