Motivational Quotes

Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ney, Richard

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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.

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.

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

e e cummings

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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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

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Plato

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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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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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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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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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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.