Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Money

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Williams, Les

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lucian

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

Bowen, Ezra

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Lennon, John

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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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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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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

Berra, Yogi

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Jane Austen

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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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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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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 is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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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

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Horace

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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