Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Clark, Frank A.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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.

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

Chanel, Coco

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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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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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Juvenal

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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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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Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian