Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Collier, Robert

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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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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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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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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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jonathan Swift

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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.

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Brown, Hobart

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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.

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Plato

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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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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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

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

Bowen, Ezra

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark