Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Money

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Horace

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

O'Malley, Austin

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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.

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

Edith Wharton

10.

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

11.

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

12.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

13.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

14.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

15.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

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

20.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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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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.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

24.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

25.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

26.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

28.

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

29.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

30.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

31.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

32.

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

Ken Hakuta

33.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

36.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

37.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Clark, Frank A.

39.

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

Plato

40.

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

Collier, Robert

41.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

42.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

43.

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

Branson, Richard

44.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

45.

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

Seneca

46.

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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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

48.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett