Motivational Quotes

Money

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

- Riccoboni, Mme.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Brown, Hobart

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Johnson, Ben

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

Collier, Robert

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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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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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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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

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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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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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Jackie Mason

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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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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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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.

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

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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.