Motivational Quotes

Money

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Money

All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

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

Hudnick, Gittel

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

13.

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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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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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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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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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

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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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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

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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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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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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Propertius, Sextus

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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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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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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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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

Davenport, Rita

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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

Austen, Jane

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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Williams, Les

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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Ruskin, John

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

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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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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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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

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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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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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