Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Brown, Hobart

Best Quotes about Money

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

Charles, Ray

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

Edith Wharton

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Collier, Robert

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Orben, Robert

Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

10.

I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.

Bird, Larry

11.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

12.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

15.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Billings, Josh

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

19.

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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

21.

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Horace

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Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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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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I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.

Youngman, Henny

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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

Luther, Martin

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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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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

Clason, George S.

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

Clason, George S.

33.

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

34.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Buffett, Warren

35.

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

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

Henry Fielding

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Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

Starr, Roger

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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.

Murchison, Jr., Clint

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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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Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

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

Leo Rosten

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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

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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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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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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Branson, Richard