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

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

Horace

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Henry Fielding

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Evan Esar

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

12.

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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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Ford, Henry

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

32.

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

Davenport, Rita

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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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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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Einstein, Albert

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.