Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Money

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

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

Horace

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

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Rebecca Johnson

10.

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

Williams, Les

11.

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

Quant, Mary

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

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

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

15.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

16.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

19.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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.

22.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

23.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Sir Thomas More

25.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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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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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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

Collier, Robert

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

34.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

35.

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

Starr, Roger

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

Bible

37.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

45.

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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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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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.