Motivational Quotes

Money

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Davenport, Rita

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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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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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Karbo, Joe

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Collier, Robert

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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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 alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Jane Austen

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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

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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

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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