Motivational Quotes

Money

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Money

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Austen, Jane

Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

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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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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Earle, Bill

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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

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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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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Kin Hubbard

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

Carson, Johnny

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Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Ernest Haskins

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fields, W. C.

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

Lynn Johnston

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

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Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

Davenport, Rita