Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jackie Mason

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Seneca

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Clason, George S.

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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William Cobbett

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

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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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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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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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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

Themistocles

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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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Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Rohe, Ludwig Mies Van Der

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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

Sophocles

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

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If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street