Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Money

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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

Seneca

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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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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

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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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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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

Quant, Mary

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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

Clark, Frank A.

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Leo Rosten

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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

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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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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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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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Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

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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