Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Best Quotes about Money

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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.

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

Edith Wharton

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

e e cummings

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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.

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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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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

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Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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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

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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Twain, Mark

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When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.

Ward, Artemus

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

25.

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

Proverb, Hebrew

26.

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

Lucilius, Gaius

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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

Hubbard, Elbert

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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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 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

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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.

Lapham, Lewis H.

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.

Clason, George S.

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Karbo, Joe

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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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 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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Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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

Bowen, Ezra

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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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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

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

Wilson, Earl

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Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Brown, Hobart

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.