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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Bible

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

11.

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

Jackie Mason

12.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

14.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

22.

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.

23.

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

Brown, Hobart

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Greeley, Horace

32.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Ruskin, John

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Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Youngman, Henny

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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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