Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Traub, Marvin

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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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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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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

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

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

Evan Esar

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

23.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Bible

28.

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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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Sir Thomas More

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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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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Horace

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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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.

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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne