Motivational Quotes

Money

Money without brains is always dangerous.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Money

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

Mike Tatum

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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.

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

Clark, Frank A.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

11.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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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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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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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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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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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Henry Fielding

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Chandler, Raymond

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

Asnas, Max

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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Fielding, Henry