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

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

Clark, Frank A.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Lawana Blackwell

However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

12.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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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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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

18.

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

Jane Austen

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

26.

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

Graham, Billy

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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

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

Clason, George S.

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

34.

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Asnas, Max

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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rebecca Johnson

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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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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

41.

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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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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