Motivational Quotes

Money

When money speaks the truth is silent.

- Proverb, Russian

Best Quotes about Money

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

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

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

Ruskin, John

If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.

Binger, William

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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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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.

15.

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

e e cummings

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

Groucho Marx

18.

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

Robert W. Sarnoff

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

20.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

21.

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

Donald Trump

22.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

25.

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

Karbo, Joe

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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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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

28.

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

29.

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

Evan Esar

30.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Bible

34.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

35.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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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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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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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

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

43.

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

Lucian

45.

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

Wilson, Earl

46.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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