Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Youngman, Henny

Best Quotes about Money

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

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

Sophocles

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

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

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

Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Robert W. Sarnoff

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 always there but the pockets change.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Plato

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

27.

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

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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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

Edith Wharton

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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

Juvenal

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.