Motivational Quotes

Money

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Money

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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

Wilson, Earl

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

Leo Rosten

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

11.

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Swift, Jonathan

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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

Evan Esar

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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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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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

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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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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Kin Hubbard

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Spader, James

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

Sophocles

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.