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

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

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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.

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

Evan Esar

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

10.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

11.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

12.

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

G. K. Chesterton

13.

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

Mike Tatum

15.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

17.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

18.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

19.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

20.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

21.

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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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

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

25.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Horace

27.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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

30.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

31.

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

Jane Austen

32.

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

33.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

34.

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

35.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

Ney, Richard

37.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

38.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

39.

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.

40.

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

Lennon, John

41.

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

Rolland, Romain

42.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

43.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

46.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.