Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Money

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

G. K. Chesterton

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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

Groucho Marx

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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 all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Collier, Robert

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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