Motivational Quotes

Money

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Money

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

Luther, Martin

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

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

Mike Tatum

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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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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Horace

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Clason, George S.

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Fields, W. C.

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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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

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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

38.

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

Karbo, Joe

39.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Davenport, Rita

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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

Wilde, Stuart