Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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

Asnas, Max

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Branson, Richard

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

12.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

17.

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

Monroe, Marilyn

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Lucian

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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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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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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

27.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

28.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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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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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

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

Groucho Marx

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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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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

38.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Spader, James

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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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.

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

Carson, Johnny

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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