Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Money

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Fielding, Henry

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

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

O'Malley, Austin

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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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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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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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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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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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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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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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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

Witkin, Georgia