Motivational Quotes

Money

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Money

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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

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

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Jane Austen

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Fielding, Henry

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Henry Fielding

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Groucho Marx

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Rolland, Romain

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson