Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Money

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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.

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

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

France, Anatole

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

Adams, Joey

10.

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

11.

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

Bible

12.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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

Earle, Bill

14.

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

Ford, Henry

15.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

Propertius, Sextus

23.

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

Traub, Marvin

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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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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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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

27.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

28.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

31.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

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

Witkin, Georgia

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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

43.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

44.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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