Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Donald Trump

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

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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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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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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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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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Bumper Sticker

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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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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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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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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

Groucho Marx

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Youngman, Henny

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Branson, Richard

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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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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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

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.