Motivational Quotes

Money

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

Best Quotes about Money

The lack of money is the root of all evils.

Twain, Mark

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

Fielding, Henry

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

Witkin, Georgia

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

Fields, W. C.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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.

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Wilson, Earl

11.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

France, Anatole

12.

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

Benjamin Franklin

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

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

Karbo, Joe

15.

Money often costs too much.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

Proverb

17.

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

Benjamin Franklin

18.

A nickel isn't worth a dime today.

Berra, Yogi

19.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

20.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Plato

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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

23.

The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.

Blotnick, Srully

24.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Rohn, Jim

25.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Propertius, Sextus

26.

Good management is better than good income.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Asnas, Max

28.

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

Juvenal

29.

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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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

32.

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

Quant, Mary

33.

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

Barrymore, John

34.

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

35.

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

Milligan, Spike

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

Bodie, Walford

39.

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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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

42.

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

Jonathan Swift

43.

Money doesn't sleep.

Movie, Wall Street

44.

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

Horace

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Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.