Motivational Quotes

Money

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

- Tertullian

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Milligan, Spike

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

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

Collier, Robert

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

11.

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

13.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Starr, Roger

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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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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

23.

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Evan Esar

25.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

26.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Seneca

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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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

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

Jane Austen

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

Rebecca Johnson

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

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

Davenport, Rita

39.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

40.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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.

45.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Einstein, Albert