Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

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

Mike Tatum

Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lucilius, Gaius

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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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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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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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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

Ziglar, Zig

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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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

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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 more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collier, Robert

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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Karbo, Joe

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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

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

Leo Rosten

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fielding, Henry

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Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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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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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

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

Proverb, Japanese

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

Clason, George S.

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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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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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Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Dylan, Bob

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

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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

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Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.

Mccracken, Robert J.

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My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Jackson, Glenda

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw