Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Groucho Marx

Best Quotes about Money

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

Youngman, Henny

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

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

Lynn Johnston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

10.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

15.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Davenport, Rita

18.

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

Bodie, Walford

19.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

20.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

21.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

24.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

25.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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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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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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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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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

30.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

32.

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.

33.

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

34.

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

Horace

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

Voltaire

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

38.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Clason, George S.

40.

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

41.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

42.

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

Sir Thomas More

43.

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

44.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

45.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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

49.

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

Lennon, John

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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