Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Getty, J. Paul

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Plato

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

10.

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

11.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

26.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

27.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

28.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

29.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Sir Thomas More

32.

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

Lynn Johnston

34.

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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

36.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

37.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.