Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Lynn Johnston

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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.

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Twain, Mark

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

Jonathan Swift

20.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

21.

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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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

France, Anatole

27.

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

28.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

29.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

30.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

32.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

33.

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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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

35.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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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.

43.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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 lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Kin Hubbard

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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

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Sir Thomas More