Motivational Quotes

Money

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Money

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Clark, Frank A.

10.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

11.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

12.

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

Davenport, Rita

13.

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

Orben, Robert

14.

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 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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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

18.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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

25.

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

Williams, Tennessee

26.

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

Quant, Mary

27.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

31.

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

Milligan, Spike

32.

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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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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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

37.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.