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

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

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

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Greeley, Horace

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

Seneca

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rebecca Johnson

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

15.

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

16.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

17.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Collier, Robert

19.

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

20.

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

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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

22.

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

Branson, Richard

23.

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

Sir Thomas More

24.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

26.

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

Lucian

27.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

28.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

29.

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

Egan, Sir John

30.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

31.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

33.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

34.

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

35.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

36.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

40.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

41.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

42.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

43.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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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

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

47.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

49.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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