Motivational Quotes

Money

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Money

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Juvenal

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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

O'Malley, Austin

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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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

Groucho Marx

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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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.

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

Ovid

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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 are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

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

Jane Austen

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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

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

Sir Thomas More

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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

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

Sophocles

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.