Motivational Quotes

Money

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Money

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

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.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

The best way to save money is not to lose it.

Williams, Les

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

10.

Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.

Billings, Victoria

11.

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

Horace

12.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

14.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

15.

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

Lucilius, Gaius

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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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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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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

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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

20.

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

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

Benjamin Franklin

23.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

26.

You don't have to die in order to make a living.

Lynn Johnston

27.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

28.

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!

Ann Radcliffe

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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

30.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Spader, James

32.

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

Karbo, Joe

33.

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

Groucho Marx

34.

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

Youngman, Henny

35.

The love of money grows as the money itself grows.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

40.

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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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

42.

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

Branson, Richard

43.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

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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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If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.

Earle, Bill

47.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

48.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

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 can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten