Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Leo Rosten

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Luther, Martin

10.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

13.

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

Sophocles

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

19.

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

Mike Tatum

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

21.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

26.

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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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

30.

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

Chandler, Raymond

31.

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

Ruskin, John

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Plutarch

35.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

36.

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

Themistocles

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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

39.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

40.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

41.

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

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

Evan Esar

43.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

44.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

45.

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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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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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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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth