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

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

Rolland, Romain

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Wilson, Earl

10.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Clark, Frank A.

18.

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

Alexander, Scott

20.

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

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

22.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

28.

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

29.

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

30.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

33.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

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

Bible

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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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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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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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Ney, Richard

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

43.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

44.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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

Fielding, Henry

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard