Motivational Quotes

Money

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Money

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lucian

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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

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

Ovid

10.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

12.

Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

13.

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

Carson, Johnny

14.

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

Seneca

15.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

16.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

17.

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

Youngman, Henny

18.

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

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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

Collier, Robert

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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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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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.

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

Bible

28.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

29.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

30.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

31.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

33.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

35.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

38.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

39.

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

40.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

41.

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

42.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

43.

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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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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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

Vaughan, Bill

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Jane Austen

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.