Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Money

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

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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

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

Groucho Marx

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Williams, Tennessee

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Carson, Johnny

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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

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Johnson, Ben

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