Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Money

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

Sanders, Col. Harland

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

Nobody deserves this much money -- certainly not an actor.

Lemmon, Jack

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Fielding, Henry

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Seneca

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

10.

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Monroe, Marilyn

11.

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

12.

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

Benjamin Franklin

13.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

14.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Groucho Marx

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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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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

G. K. Chesterton

19.

Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

Rita Rudner

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

Mike Tatum

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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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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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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.

Henry Fielding

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Alexander, Scott

36.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

37.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

Sophocles

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

Fulghum, Robert

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James

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

Collier, Robert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.

Robbins, Anthony

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil