Motivational Quotes

Money

After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.

- Lucilius, Gaius

Best Quotes about Money

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

Franklin, Benjamin

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

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

Phillips, Michael

Money talks and often just says, Good Bye.

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas -- not money.

Collier, Robert

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

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

Kin Hubbard

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.

Marquis, Don

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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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A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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It's just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.

Traub, Marvin

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

19.

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

Burgess, Anthony

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

Fielding, Henry

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Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Asnas, Max

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The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Money is the sinew of love as well as war.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

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I've got a living to make, to put it plainly; there's more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.

Bodie, Walford

31.

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.

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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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Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

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

Groucho Marx

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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Luther, Martin

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Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.

39.

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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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 is the sinews of love, as of war.

Farquhar, George

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Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

Barrymore, John

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

Lucian

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Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.

Riccoboni, Mme.

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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

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Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Quant, Mary

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Money alone sets all the world in motion.

Publilius Syrus

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.