Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Witkin, Georgia

Best Quotes about Money

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Jane Austen

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

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Bible

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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

Kin Hubbard

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Egan, Sir John

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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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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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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Chanel, Coco

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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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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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Jonathan Swift

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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