Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Money

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.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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

Austen, Jane

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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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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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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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

28.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

30.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

31.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Fulghum, Robert

33.

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

Christina Stead

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

Burgess, Anthony

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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

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Henry Fielding

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Egan, Sir John

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

Rolland, Romain

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

Edith Wharton

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

Proverb, Yiddish