Motivational Quotes

Money

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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Best Quotes about Money

The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.

Mike Tatum

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Collier, Robert

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

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

10.

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

Juvenal

11.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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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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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Fields, W. C.

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

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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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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.

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

Ken Hakuta

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

Proverb, Jewish

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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich --that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

Fielding, Henry

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

31.

A billion here, a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

Dirksen, Everett M.

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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Branson, Richard

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

Fielding, Henry

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