Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Money

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.

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Hebrew

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

11.

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

Leo Rosten

12.

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 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

14.

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

15.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Proverb, Jewish

18.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

19.

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

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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

21.

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

Quant, Mary

22.

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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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Williams, Les

25.

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

Horace

26.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

27.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

32.

It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

33.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

34.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

35.

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

36.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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

38.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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

40.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

41.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

42.

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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

Brown, Les

45.

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

Spader, James

46.

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

Keynes, John Maynard

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.