Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Money

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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

10.

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

11.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

12.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

13.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

14.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

15.

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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

17.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

18.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

19.

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

20.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

21.

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

22.

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

Jane Austen

23.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

24.

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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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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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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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Davenport, Rita

30.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

31.

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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

33.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

34.

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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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Collier, Robert

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

42.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

43.

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

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

Henry Fielding

45.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Plutarch

47.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

48.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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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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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson