Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lucilius, Gaius

Best Quotes about Money

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

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Jewish

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Alexander, Scott

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Brown, Hobart

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Milligan, Spike

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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

11.

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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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

15.

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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

17.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

18.

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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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

Ovid

21.

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.

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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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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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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 poverty.

Feldman, Marty

26.

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

Williams, Tennessee

27.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

31.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

Sir Thomas More

34.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

38.

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

Clark, Frank A.

39.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

40.

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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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

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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