Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Money

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Carson, Johnny

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Propertius, Sextus

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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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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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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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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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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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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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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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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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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