Motivational Quotes

Money

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Money

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

Armour, J. Ogden

There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.

Phillips, Michael

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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A fool and her money are soon courted.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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I don't even get an allowance.

Culkin, Macaulay

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

24.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Marx, Karl

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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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

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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.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Lewis, Joe E.

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If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold -- billions of dollars worth -- he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.

Bunning, Charles F.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Getty, J. Paul

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Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Fielding, Henry

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The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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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High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out.And that's wrong.

Butcher, Willard C.

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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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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]

Bible

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn't any.

Howe, Edgar Watson