Motivational Quotes

Money

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Money

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Lucian

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

10.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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.

14.

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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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

18.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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

20.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

22.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

23.

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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Rebecca Johnson

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

28.

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

29.

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Proverb, Hebrew

32.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

33.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Alexander, Scott

35.

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

Greeley, Horace

36.

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

Bible

38.

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

39.

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

42.

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

43.

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

Vaughan, Bill

44.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

45.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

Branson, Richard

47.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

48.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

49.

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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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