Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Belloc, Hilaire

Best Quotes about Money

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

10.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

11.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

12.

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Stuart

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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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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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

19.

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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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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Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

23.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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

32.

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

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

Plato

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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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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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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

42.

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

Sir Thomas More

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny