Motivational Quotes

Money

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Money

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

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

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

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

Brown, Hobart

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

France, Anatole

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Jane Austen

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

10.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

11.

Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.

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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

Rebecca Johnson

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All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.

Josh Lieb

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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Jonathan Swift

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Alexander, Scott

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

Wilson, Earl

22.

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

Orben, Robert

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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

Davies, Robertson

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Groucho Marx

28.

I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

29.

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

Johnson, Ben

30.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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

Starr, Roger

32.

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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Money is good, love is wealth.

Horton, Doug

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

Wilde, Stuart

36.

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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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.

38.

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

G. K. Chesterton

39.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hunt, H. L.

40.

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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Mike Tatum

43.

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

44.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

45.

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

Quant, Mary

46.

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

Ney, Richard

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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

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

Williams, Tennessee

50.

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.