Motivational Quotes

Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Money

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

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Collier, Robert

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

Branson, Richard

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

11.

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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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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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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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Lucian

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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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

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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Carson, Johnny

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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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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 single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Donald Trump

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

Adams, Joey

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

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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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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Byron, Lord

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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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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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