Motivational Quotes

Money

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

- Keynes, John Maynard

Best Quotes about Money

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Jonathan Swift

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Chandler, Raymond

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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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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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.

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

16.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

17.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

18.

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

Alexander, Scott

19.

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

Christina Stead

20.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

21.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

24.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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

27.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

28.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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.

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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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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.

32.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Lawana Blackwell

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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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

Bowen, Ezra

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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

Phillips, Michael

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul