Motivational Quotes

Money

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

- Ward, Artemus

Best Quotes about Money

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

11.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

12.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

13.

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

Spader, James

14.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Ken Hakuta

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

19.

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

Ernest Haskins

20.

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

Quant, Mary

21.

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

Lennon, John

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

Themistocles

23.

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

Earle, Bill

24.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

27.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

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

Horace

29.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

30.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

31.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

33.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

34.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

35.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

36.

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

Benjamin Franklin

37.

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

Luther, Martin

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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.

39.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

40.

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

France, Anatole

41.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

42.

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.

43.

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

Seneca

44.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

45.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.