Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Milligan, Spike

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clason, George S.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

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

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

10.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

11.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

12.

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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sir Thomas More

16.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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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

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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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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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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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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Blotnick, Srully

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

36.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Spader, James

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Lennon, John

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard