Motivational Quotes

Money

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Jackie Mason

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

Witkin, Georgia

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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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.

11.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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

14.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

15.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

20.

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

21.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

27.

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

28.

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

Williams, Les

29.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

France, Anatole

33.

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

34.

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

Earle, Bill

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

36.

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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

Luther, Martin

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Clason, George S.

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Juvenal

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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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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

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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