Motivational Quotes

Money

The only wealth is life.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Money

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

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Branson, Richard

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

Twain, Mark

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Henry Fielding

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fields, W. C.

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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

Leo Rosten

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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.