Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Money

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

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

Ruskin, John

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Groucho Marx

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Leo Rosten

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

24.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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

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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

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Orben, Robert

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

32.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

33.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.