Motivational Quotes

Money

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Money

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Williams, Les

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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.

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

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

Lucian

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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

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Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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

Milligan, Spike

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Traub, Marvin

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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

Earle, Bill

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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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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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Jane Austen

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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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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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