Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Logan Pearsall Smith

Best Quotes about Money

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Williams, Les

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Vaughan, Bill

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

Kin Hubbard

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lucian

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

Phillips, Michael

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

33.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Sir Thomas More

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

Henry Fielding

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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.

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Austen, Jane

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett