Motivational Quotes

Money

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Money

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Proverb, Yiddish

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

11.

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

Propertius, Sextus

12.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Jefferson, Thomas

14.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

15.

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

Ovid

16.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

17.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

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

Chanel, Coco

22.

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

Phillips, Michael

23.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

24.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

25.

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

29.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

30.

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.

31.

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

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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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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

34.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

35.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

40.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

41.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

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

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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

48.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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