Motivational Quotes

Money

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

- Ford, Henry

Best Quotes about Money

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

Ken Hakuta

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Thoreau, Henry David

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Brown, Hobart

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

11.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

12.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

13.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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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

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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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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Mike Tatum

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

25.

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

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Witkin, Georgia

28.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

29.

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

Davenport, Rita

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

33.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Lucian

38.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

Sophocles

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

Traub, Marvin

46.

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.

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never spend your money before you have it.