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

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

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

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

10.

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

Belloc, Hilaire

11.

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

Blotnick, Srully

12.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

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

14.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

15.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

16.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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

20.

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

Benjamin Franklin

21.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

22.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Japanese

26.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

27.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

28.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

29.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

30.

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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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

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

34.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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.