Motivational Quotes

Money

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Money

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

Leo Rosten

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

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

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Benjamin Franklin

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Hebrew

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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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The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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

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

Dirksen, Everett M.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

28.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

30.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Mike Tatum

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

G. K. Chesterton

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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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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

Davenport, Rita

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If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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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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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