Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Lucian

Best Quotes about Money

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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

Blotnick, Srully

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

Davenport, Rita

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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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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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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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

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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Sophocles

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

Lennon, John

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

31.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Getty, J. Paul

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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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

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