Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Money

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Themistocles

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

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

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

Lynn Johnston

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

10.

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

Blotnick, Srully

11.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

12.

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

Adams, Joey

13.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

14.

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

Clark, Frank A.

15.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

16.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

17.

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

Bowen, Ezra

18.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

19.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Austen, Jane

23.

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

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

G. K. Chesterton

25.

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

Spader, James

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

28.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

29.

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.

30.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

31.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

33.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

34.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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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

40.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

41.

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

Chanel, Coco

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

44.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Traub, Marvin

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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.

50.

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

Getty, J. Paul