Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

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

Brown, Hobart

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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 speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Nelson, Paula

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

Barrymore, John

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Swift, Jonathan

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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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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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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Groucho Marx

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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

Benjamin Franklin

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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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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.

Egan, Sir John

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ovid

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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Mike Tatum

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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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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 is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert