Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Collier, Robert

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Mike Tatum

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Twain, Mark

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Starr, Roger

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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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 your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Evan Esar

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Horace

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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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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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

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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

France, Anatole

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