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 won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Themistocles

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

10.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

11.

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

Rebecca Johnson

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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

14.

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

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Ney, Richard

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

19.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

28.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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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

31.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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

33.

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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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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

Collier, Robert

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

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

Witkin, Georgia

40.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

Bumper Sticker

42.

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

43.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

44.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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

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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo