Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Mike Tatum

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

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

Bowen, Ezra

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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

Plato

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

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

Austen, Jane

10.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

11.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

12.

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

Jackie Mason

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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

14.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Ward, Artemus

16.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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

Groucho Marx

18.

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Henry Fielding

20.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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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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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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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Luther, Martin

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

30.

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

Kin Hubbard

31.

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

32.

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

Edith Wharton

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You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

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

Evan Esar

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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

43.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.