Motivational Quotes

Money

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Christina Stead

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

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.

10.

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

11.

No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Graham, Billy

13.

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

Greeley, Horace

14.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

15.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

16.

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

17.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

18.

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

Edith Wharton

19.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

20.

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

21.

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

Bodie, Walford

22.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

25.

If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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

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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 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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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

31.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

32.

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

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

35.

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

Groucho Marx

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

39.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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

Propertius, Sextus

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

45.

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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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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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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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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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

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.