Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Evan Esar

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.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Graham, Billy

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

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Henry Fielding

10.

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

Plato

11.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

12.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

15.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

18.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

19.

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

20.

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

Luther, Martin

21.

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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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

24.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

26.

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

Clark, Frank A.

27.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

29.

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

Davenport, Rita

30.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

31.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

32.

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

Williams, Les

33.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

34.

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

35.

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.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

Branson, Richard

43.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

44.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Edith Wharton

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

49.

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

Chanel, Coco

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis