Motivational Quotes

Money

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Money

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

Fielding, Henry

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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 not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Ward, Artemus

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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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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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

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Henry Fielding

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Juvenal

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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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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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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

Austen, Jane

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Bodie, Walford

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Chandler, Raymond

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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

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Bible

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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