Motivational Quotes

Money

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

- Riccoboni, Mme.

Best Quotes about Money

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

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Bible

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

Alexander, Scott

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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.

10.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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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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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

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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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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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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Fielding, Henry

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Chandler, Raymond

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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