Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Money

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

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

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

Ovid

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

Kroc, Ray

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

Karbo, Joe

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

O'Malley, Austin

10.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Ibsen, Henrik

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Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Waitley, Denis

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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

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

Luther, Martin

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

Lennon, John

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Belloc, Hilaire

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A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.

Moffatt, James

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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It's important to me that money not be important to me.

Brown, Les

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jonathan Swift

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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Edith Wharton

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

Propertius, Sextus

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

Hudnick, Gittel

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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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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Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

Ayckbourn, Alan

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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

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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

Rebecca Johnson

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

Bodie, Walford

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If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese