Motivational Quotes

Money

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

- Howard, John

Best Quotes about Money

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

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

Kin Hubbard

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

Asnas, Max

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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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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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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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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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Henry Fielding

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Lucian

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea