Motivational Quotes

Money

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Quant, Mary

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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.

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

G. K. Chesterton

13.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

15.

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

Phillips, Michael

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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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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

18.

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

Seneca

20.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

21.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

22.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

23.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Yiddish

32.

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

Spader, James

33.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

Evan Esar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

39.

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

Lynn Johnston

42.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Sir Henry Taylor

44.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

45.

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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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

47.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

Fields, W. C.