Motivational Quotes

Money

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Best Quotes about Money

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Jonathan Swift

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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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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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

33.

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

34.

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

Juvenal

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Ward, Artemus

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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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 will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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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 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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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