Motivational Quotes

Money

Money without brains is always dangerous.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Franklin, Benjamin

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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

Plutarch

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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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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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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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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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

27.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Barrymore, John

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

Mike Tatum

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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.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Horace

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Jonathan Swift

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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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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

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

Horace

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Ruskin, John

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

Henry Fielding

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

Starr, Roger