Motivational Quotes

Money

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

- Karbo, Joe

Best Quotes about Money

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb, Hebrew

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

Hudnick, Gittel

Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.

Ann Radcliffe

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

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Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

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

Juvenal

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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Ben

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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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Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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.

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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

Murdoch, Rupert

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Lack of money is the root of all evil.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Money is something you got to make in case you don't die.

Asnas, Max

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Yes! Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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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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When money speaks the truth is silent.

Proverb, Russian

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

Proverb

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

Ayckbourn, Alan

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Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

Halifax, Edward F.

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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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 sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.

Ney, Richard

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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

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

Jonathan Swift

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

Brown, Les

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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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.

47.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

Lucian

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If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.

Proverb, Jewish

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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