Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Money

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Benjamin Franklin

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

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

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Jackie Mason

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Austen, Jane

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

Henry Fielding

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

Egan, Sir John

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Blotnick, Srully

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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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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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

France, Anatole

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Ovid

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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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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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