Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Money

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.

Blotnick, Srully

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Cicero

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.

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

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

10.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

Tucker, Sophie

11.

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

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Horace

14.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Jane Austen

15.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Michael Pritchard

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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

17.

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

Groucho Marx

18.

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

19.

When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

20.

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

Fielding, Henry

21.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Evan Esar

22.

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

G. K. Chesterton

25.

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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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

27.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Orben, Robert

29.

When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

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

Lawana Blackwell

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

33.

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.

Dworkin, Andrea

34.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

36.

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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The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Brown, Norman O.

38.

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

Fielding, Henry

39.

Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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

44.

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

45.

Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.

Amis, Martin

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

47.

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

Chandler, Raymond

48.

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

49.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

50.

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.