Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Proverb, Jewish

Best Quotes about Money

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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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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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.

12.

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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 nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Clark, Frank A.

18.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

19.

Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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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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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Chanel, Coco

29.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

30.

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.