Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Fields, W. C.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

10.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Carson, Johnny

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

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

Onassis, Aristotle

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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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Ford, Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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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

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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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

34.

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

Brown, Les

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Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Alexander, Scott

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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

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There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Collier, Robert

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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

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Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.