Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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.

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

Spader, James

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

14.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

15.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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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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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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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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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Propertius, Sextus

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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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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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

40.

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

41.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Getty, J. Paul

43.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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.