Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Propertius, Sextus

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Ken Hakuta

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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.

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Traub, Marvin

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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 often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Themistocles

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Luther, Martin

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Mike Tatum

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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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 is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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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