Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Leo Rosten

Best Quotes about Money

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hill, Napoleon

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

10.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

11.

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

12.

High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

16.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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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

19.

If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

21.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

25.

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

26.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

31.

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

Blotnick, Srully

32.

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

Jonathan Swift

33.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

34.

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

Orben, Robert

35.

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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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

40.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.