Motivational Quotes

Money

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Money

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Austen, Jane

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

Greeley, Horace

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Groucho Marx

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Alexander, Scott

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Sophocles

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From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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

Collier, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

34.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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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 makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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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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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch