Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Witkin, Georgia

Best Quotes about Money

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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

Wilde, Stuart

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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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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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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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

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lucian

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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

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Sir Thomas More

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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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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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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.

Brown, Hobart

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

Seneca

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Spader, James

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.