Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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.

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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.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Branson, Richard

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Juvenal

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

Barrymore, John

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

Greeley, Horace

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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

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Davenport, Rita

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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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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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

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

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