Motivational Quotes

Money

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Money

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Leo Rosten

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Milligan, Spike

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Johnson, Ben

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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

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Twain, Mark

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Ernest Haskins

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

Proverb, Jewish

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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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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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

28.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Phillips, Michael

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Branson, Richard

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

Bible

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Collier, Robert

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Proverb, Japanese

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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 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