Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Brown, Les

Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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

Thoreau, Henry David

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Ruskin, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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.

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

10.

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

Spader, James

11.

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

12.

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

14.

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Brown, Hobart

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

23.

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

Proverb, Jewish

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

26.

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

Lemmon, Jack

27.

Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

30.

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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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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

Johnson, Ben

34.

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

Onassis, Aristotle

35.

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard

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

Lennon, John

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Henry Fielding

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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

Egan, Sir John

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo