Motivational Quotes

Money

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.

Best Quotes about Money

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

Luther, Martin

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Davenport, Rita

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Collier, Robert

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

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

Sir Henry Taylor

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It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

Juvenal

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Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

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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 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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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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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Phillips, Michael

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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.

Juvenal

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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love.

Lennon, John

27.

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

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Anyone who says money can't buy happiness just doesn't know where to shop.

Bumper Sticker

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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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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

31.

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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

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Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Behn, Aphra

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

Blotnick, Srully

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

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Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught;Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

Proverb, American Indian

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Firestone, Harvey S.

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Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.