Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Wilde, Stuart

Best Quotes about Money

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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.

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Fulghum, Robert

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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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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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.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Lennon, John

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Seneca

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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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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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

34.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Phillips, Michael

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Sophocles

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig