Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Money

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

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

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Ovid

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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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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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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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 is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Witkin, Georgia

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.