Motivational Quotes

Money

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Money

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Groucho Marx

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

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Alexander, Scott

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The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mike Tatum

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Waitley, Denis

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Propertius, Sextus

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Williams, Les

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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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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If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Bacon, Francis

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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Bible

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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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 is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham