Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles

Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lewis, Joe E.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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.

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Greeley, Horace

12.

I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

Jefferson, Thomas

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He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]

Bible

14.

Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

Adams, Joey

15.

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

Horace

16.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Graham, Billy

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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

18.

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

19.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Plutarch

20.

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

Clark, Frank A.

21.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

22.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

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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

24.

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

25.

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

26.

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

Rolland, Romain

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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

28.

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

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

Hudnick, Gittel

30.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Witkin, Georgia

31.

I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

32.

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

33.

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

34.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

The money men make lives after them.

Butler, Samuel

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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Samuel Butler

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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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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.

Casson, Herbert N.

41.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

42.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

43.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

e e cummings

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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Macdonald, George

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

Johnson, Ben

46.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

Latimer, George Horace

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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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Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

Wilson, Earl

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

Benjamin Franklin