Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Money

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

Austen, Jane

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.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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

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

Propertius, Sextus

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

O'Malley, Austin

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

Carson, Johnny

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Collier, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Plutarch

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Evan Esar

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Spader, James

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Horace

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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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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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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark