Motivational Quotes

Money

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Money

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

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Voltaire

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Starr, Roger

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

Davenport, Rita

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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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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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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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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.