Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Williams, Les

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Leo Rosten

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

11.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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

Ney, Richard

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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

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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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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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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Milligan, Spike

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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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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Luther, Martin

26.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

27.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

28.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

29.

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

Ernest Haskins

30.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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Money can't buy poverty.

Feldman, Marty

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

Ruskin, John

35.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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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

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

Fielding, Henry

40.

Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

41.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Earle, Bill

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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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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Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.