Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Money

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Clason, George S.

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

Themistocles

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.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

13.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bowen, Ezra

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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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

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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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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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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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.

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Horace

34.

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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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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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Groucho Marx

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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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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Collier, Robert