Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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 best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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

Lynn Johnston

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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

11.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

12.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

15.

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

Jackson, Glenda

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

19.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

20.

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

21.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

22.

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

Ken Hakuta

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

24.

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

Fielding, Henry

25.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

28.

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

Karbo, Joe

29.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

30.

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

31.

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.

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Buffett, Warren

34.

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

Ernest Haskins

35.

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

Traub, Marvin

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

Plato

37.

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

Phillips, Michael

39.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

40.

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 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

42.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

43.

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

44.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

45.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

47.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

48.

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

Bowen, Ezra

49.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon