Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

Austen, Jane

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

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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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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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The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

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

Groucho Marx

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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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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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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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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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 can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Phillips, Michael

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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

Leo Rosten

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sir Thomas More

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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