Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- France, Anatole

Best Quotes about Money

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

10.

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

Clark, Frank A.

11.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

13.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Proverb, Jewish

15.

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

16.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

17.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

18.

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 was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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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 is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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

Proverb, Hebrew

24.

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

Seneca

25.

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

27.

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

28.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

29.

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

Edith Wharton

30.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Lucian

33.

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.

34.

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

Davenport, Rita

35.

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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

37.

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

Hill, Napoleon

38.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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

40.

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

Branson, Richard

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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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

45.

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

46.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

47.

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

Wilson, Earl

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain