Motivational Quotes

Money

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Best Quotes about Money

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Twain, Mark

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

e e cummings

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Edith Wharton

11.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

14.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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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

17.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

18.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

19.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Collier, Robert

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

25.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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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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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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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.

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

37.

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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

45.

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

Ernest Haskins

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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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Money is just a way of keeping score.