Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Money

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

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

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

Fielding, Henry

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Bowen, Ezra

The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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

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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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

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Horace

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Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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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 does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lot to be made at the top.

Zimet, Martin

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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

Fielding, Henry

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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Youngman, Henny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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A single idea -- the sudden flash of a thought -- may be worth a million dollars.

Collier, Robert

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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

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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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After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.

Livermore, Jesse

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.

Ernest Haskins

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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

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Never spend your money before you have it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... cash is king.

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Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.

Proverb, Italian

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Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money.

Tertullian

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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Hill, Napoleon

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The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

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Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Never underestimate the value of cold cash.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Austen, Jane

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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.