Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Lucian

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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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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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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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

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Plato

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Bible

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

Clark, Frank A.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Ken Hakuta

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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Leo Rosten

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Jackie Mason

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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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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Swift, Jonathan