Motivational Quotes

Money

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

- Latimer, George Horace

Best Quotes about Money

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

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

Plato

10.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

11.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

12.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

13.

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

Collier, Robert

14.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

15.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

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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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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 couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

19.

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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lucian

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

24.

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

Phillips, Michael

25.

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

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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

27.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

28.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bible

31.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

32.

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

Vaughan, Bill

33.

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

Evan Esar

34.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

36.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 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 fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

43.

It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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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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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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

Monroe, Marilyn