Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

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

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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

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

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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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 basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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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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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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

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

Williams, Les

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Lynn Johnston

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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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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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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.

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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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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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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

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Halifax, Edward F.