Motivational Quotes

Money

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Money

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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

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

Johnson, Ben

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

Ford, Henry

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Greeley, Horace

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

Voltaire

11.

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.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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

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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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When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

18.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

19.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

20.

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

Jonathan Swift

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilde, Stuart

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

Groucho Marx

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Seneca

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

Leo Rosten

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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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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

29.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

Sir Thomas More

30.

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

31.

Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

33.

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

40.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Starr, Roger

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Hudnick, Gittel

45.

Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Buffett, Warren

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

Fielding, Henry

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If I don't need the money, I don't work.

Spader, James