Motivational Quotes

Money

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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Best Quotes about Money

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

Edith Wharton

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

Branson, Richard

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

10.

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

Sir Thomas More

11.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

Earle, Bill

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

Ovid

14.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

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

Themistocles

19.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Sophocles

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

32.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

34.

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

Clason, George S.

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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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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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.

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Ernest Haskins

42.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Bible

45.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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