Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Plato

Best Quotes about Money

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

Jane Austen

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

12.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

13.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

14.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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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

17.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

20.

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

21.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

22.

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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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

24.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

25.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

27.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

28.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

29.

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

Brown, Hobart

30.

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

Clark, Frank A.

31.

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

Collier, Robert

33.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

34.

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

Asnas, Max

35.

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

O'Malley, Austin

36.

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

Sir Henry Taylor

38.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

39.

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.

40.

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

Clason, George S.

41.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

42.

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

43.

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

Youngman, Henny

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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.

45.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Orben, Robert

50.

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

Clark, Frank A.