Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Money

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Graham, Billy

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

O'Malley, Austin

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Milligan, Spike

10.

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.

11.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

14.

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

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bible

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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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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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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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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

27.

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

Sophocles

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

30.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

31.

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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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

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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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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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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

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

40.

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

Jane Austen

41.

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

42.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

43.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

46.

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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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

48.

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

49.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren