Motivational Quotes

Money

Good management is better than good income.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Money

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

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Ward, Artemus

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

10.

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

Clason, George S.

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

Themistocles

13.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Plato

15.

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

Groucho Marx

16.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

17.

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

Benjamin Franklin

19.

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Bible

21.

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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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

Getty, J. Paul

24.

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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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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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 couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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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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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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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

31.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

32.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

33.

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

Ovid

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

Benjamin Franklin

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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

40.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

41.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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

49.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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